Rubidium-82 PET for heart disease
Mc Ardle and colleagues pooled 15 PET and 8 SPECT studies and found rubidium-82 PET detected obstructive coronary artery disease with 90% sensitivity and 88% specificity, versus 85% and 85% for technetium-99m SPECT.
As reported in: Mc Ardle, Dowsley, deKemp et al. (2012). Does Rubidium-82 PET Have Superior Accuracy to SPECT Perfusion Imaging for the Diagnosis of Obstructive Coronary Disease?. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2012.07.038