Research interests
- Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiovascular Imaging
- Myocardial gated-SPECT
- Quantitative myocardial gated-PET: absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow, coronary flow reserve, left ventricular function
- Hybrid PET/CT and PET/MRI in atherosclerosis
- Cardio-Oncology
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
SPECT, Hybrid Imaging, PET/CT, PET/MRI.
Selected publications
- Calabretta, R. et al. (2020) ‘Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Induces Inflammatory Activity in Large Arteries’, Circulation, 142(24), pp. 2396–2398. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.120.048708.
- Calabretta, R. et al. (2021) ‘Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Induces Inflammatory Activity in the Large Arteries of Lymphoma Patients under 50 Years of Age’, Biology, 10(11), p. 1206. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10111206.
- Calabretta, R. et al. (2021) ‘Prognostic value of divergent pattern detection by 99mTc-sestamibi gated SPECT in patients with anterior acute myocardial infarction’, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology [Preprint]. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12350-021-02874-6.
- Sciagrà, R. et al. (2018) ‘Sub-endocardial and sub-epicardial measurement of myocardial blood flow using 13NH3 PET in man’, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 27(5), pp. 1665–1674. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12350-018-1445-y.
- Calabretta, R. et al. (2022) ‘Evaluation of stress myocardial blood flow patterns in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy’, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 29(4), pp. 1946–1951. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12350-022-02911-y.