Specialization
Nuclear cardiology with emphasis on myocardial sympathetic activity
Focus of research
The focus is on the application of nuclear medicine techniques to cardiovascular diseases:
- Studying the role of myocardial symphathetic activity in heart failure patients with 123I-MIBG. In this context a European network has been constructed to obtain relevant data.
- In collaboration with the group of Prof dr ES Stroes looking at inflamation of the vascular wall and the effects of farmacological interventions with 18F-FDG and labelled leucocytes.
- In collaboration with Prof dr JJ Piek studying new tracers for the imaging of neovascularization in patients with chronic coronary artery occlusions.
- In collaboration with F Holleman studying brown adipose tissue and ways to selectively stimulate/activate brown adipose tissue.