Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: Principles and Applications

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Nuclear Cardiac Imaging
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Dedication
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Section I. Historical, Technical, and Physiologic Considerations
	1. Nuclear Cardiology: History and Milestones
	2. Radiation Physics AND RADIATION SAFETY
	3. SPECT and PET Instrumentation: Conventional and New
	4. Kinetics of Conventional and New Cardiac Radiotracers
	5. Radionuclide Angiography
	6. Gated SPECT MPI: Imaging Protocols and Acquisitions; Processing and Quantification
	7. Artifacts
Section II. Diagnosis and Risk Assessment
	8. Regulation of Myocardial Blood Flow
	9. Measurement of Myocardial Blood Flow by PET
	10. Measurement of Myocardial Blood Flow by SPECT
	11. Treadmill Exercise Testing
	12. Pharmacologic Stress Testing
	13. Diagnosis and Risk Assessment with SPECT MPI
	14. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment in Special Groups: Diabetes Mellitus, Kidney Transplant, Liver Transplant, Asymptomatic, Obese
	15. SPECT MPI and Risk Assessment Before Non-​cardiac Surgery
	16. Evaluation of Patients with Chest Pain in the Emergency Department
	17. Role of PET in Diagnosis and Risk Assessment in Patients with Known or Suspected CAD
	18. Nuclear Cardiac Imaging in Women
	19. Myocardial Viability Assessment by Nuclear Techniques
Section III. Role of Nuclear Imaging Beyond CAD
	20. Imaging Dyssynchrony
	21. Imaging Myocardial Innervation by SPECT and PET
	22. Imaging Sarcoid Heart Disease
	23. Imaging Amyloid Heart Disease
	24. Imaging Infection of Valves and Devices
	25. Imaging Cardiac and Vascular Inflammation
	26. Radionuclide Imaging in Heart Failure
Section IV. Advances in Nuclear Cardiac Imaging
	27. Evolving Role of Echocardiography, Cardiac CT, and Cardiac MRI in CAD
	28. Hybrid Imaging: SPECT/CCTA, PET/​MR, and SPECT Calcium Score: When and Why?
	29. Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Imaging
	30. Nuclear Imaging in Patients with Serious Arrhythmias
	31. The Role of Nuclear Cardiology in the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases in Patients Living with HIV
	32. Nuclear Imaging in Cardio-​Oncology
	33. Radionuclide Imaging in Patients with Congenital Heart Diseases
Section V. Challenges for Nuclear Cardiology
	34. Physician Certification and Laboratory Accreditation
	35. Nuclear Cardiology Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and European Society of Cardiology
	36. Nuclear Cardiology Report Generation
	37. Radiation Considerations in Imaging
	38. Statistics in Nuclear Imaging
	39. Nuclear Imaging in Developing Countries
Section VI. Overview
	40. Essentials of Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: Ask the Experts
Index