Clinical Nuclear Cardiology: State of the Art and Future Directions

Author: Barry L. Zaret
Published: October 2004
Publisher: Elsevier Science
ISBN: 0323024947
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 749

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Table of Contents
Ch. 1 Overview of kinetics and modeling 3
Ch. 2 Kinetics on a cellular level 13
Ch. 3 Role of intact biological models for evaluation of radiotracers 25
Ch. 4 Single-photon emission computed tomography processing, quantification, and display 51
Ch. 5 Single-photon emission computed tomography artifacts 67
Ch. 6 Attenuation/scatter/resolution correction : physics aspects 89
Ch. 7 Attenuation/scatter correction : clinical aspects 103
Ch. 8 Dynamic cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography using fast data acquisition systems 117
Ch. 9 The new generation positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners : implications for cardiac imaging 141
Ch. 10 State of the art instrumentation for positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography imaging in small animals 153
Ch. 11 Cardiac performance 175
Ch. 12 Regional and global ventricular function and volumes from single-photon emission computed tomography perfusion imaging 189
Ch. 13 Coronary artery disease : exercise stress 215
Ch. 14 Coronary artery disease detection : pharmacologic stress 233
Ch. 15 Prognostic applications of myocardial perfusion imaging : exercise stress 255
Ch. 16 Prognostic value of pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and its use in risk stratification 265
Ch. 17 Myocardial perfusion imaging using nonradionuclide techniques 281
Ch. 18 Cost effectiveness of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography 297
Ch. 19 Imaging in women 311
Ch. 20 Imaging for preoperative risk stratification 323
Ch. 21 Nuclear imaging in patients with a history of coronary revascularization 339
Ch. 22 Stress myocardial pefusion imaging in patients with diabetes mellitus 349
Ch. 23 Radionuclide imaging in heart failure and cardiomyopathies 357
Ch. 24 Imaging in patients receiving cardiotoxic chemotherapy 377
Ch. 25 Mechanistic and methodologic considerations for the imaging of mental stress ischemia 385
Ch. 26 Measurement of myocardial blood flow and monitoring therapy 399
Ch. 27 Imaging patients with chest pain in the emergency department 415
Ch. 28 Measuring the efficacy of therapy in acute myocardial infarction with technetium-99m-sestamibi imaging 429
Ch. 29 Risk stratification after acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction 453
Ch. 30 Risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes 479
Ch. 31 Physiologic and metabolic basis of myocardial viability imaging 495
Ch. 32 Assessment of myocardial viability with thallium-201 and technetium-based agents 503
Ch. 33 Assessment of myocardial viability with positron emission tomography 519
Ch. 34 Comparison with non-nuclear techniques 535
Ch. 35 Fatty acid imaging 559
Ch. 36 Cardiac neurotransmission imaging : single-photon emission computed tomography 577
Ch. 37 Cardiac neurotransmission imaging : positron emission tomography 593
Ch. 38 Receptor imaging 609
Ch. 39 New molecular approaches for imaging of angiogenesis and hypoxia 631
Ch. 40 Noninvasive detection of cell death in myocardial disorders 649
Ch. 41 Radionuclide approach to imaging of inflammation in atheroma for the detection of lesions vulnerable to rupture 659
Ch. 42 Molecular imaging of gene products 673
Ch. 43 Imaging myocardial inflammation 691
Case examples for use of myocardial perfusion imaging 699

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