Juhani
Knuuti
Director, Turku PET Centre
InFLAMES Flagship
MD, professor, Turku PET Centre
Cardiovascular diseases, imaging
Biography
Juhani Knuuti’s research has focused on the physiology and pathophysiology, diagnosis and new therapies of coronary artery disease, heart failure and metabolic diseases. The research is also focused on developing and utilizing novel noninvasive imaging methods (PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT) that will help to determine the risk and severity of CHD and heart failure and provide guidance for therapy decisions. The recent focus in cardiac research has been on vulnerable plaques, cardiac remodelling and multimodality and hybrid imaging. In metabolic and diabetes research, the focus has been in the interactions between different organs and heart in the pathogenesis and development of the cardiac diseases.
Publications
Cardiac neuronal imaging: Application in the evaluation of cardiac disease (2008)
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Erratum: Increased physical activity decreases hepatic free fatty acid uptake: A study in human monozygotic twins. (Journal of Physiology (2008) vol. 578 (347-358)) (2008)
Journal of Physiology
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Spirometry based respiratory gating method for cardiac PET and MRI imaging (2008)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))123 I-mIBG scintigraphy to predict inducibility of ventricular arrhythmias on cardiac electrophysiology testing: a prospective multicenter pilot study. (2008)
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
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Correction of Respiratory Motion in Dual Gated Cardiac Imaging in PET/CT (2008)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))Coronary reactivity, homocysteine and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene variation in young men during pravastatin therapy (2007)
Vascular Pharmacology
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Imaging of the failing heart (2007)
Scandinavian Journal of Surgery
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The failing heart (2007)
(Muu (O2))A moving heart phantom for dual gated cardiac PET/CT studies (2007)
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium conference record
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