September 8, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. PET finds early coronary disease in diabetic patients -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PET may be diagnostically more powerful than ultrasound or CT for identifying early coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. Nuclear cardiologist Dr. Thomas Schindler and colleagues at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the University of California, Los Angeles measured coronary endothelium dysfunction with nitrogen-13 ammonia PET and rest-stress PET.
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