Table of Contents

 

 

 

1

Principles of Nuclear Cardiology Imaging   Ernest V. Garcia, James R. Galt, Tracy L. Faber, and Ji Chen

1

2

SPECT and PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Tracers and Techniques   Vasken Dilsizian

55

3

Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT Imaging   Juhani Knuuti

95

4

Physiologic and Pharmacologic Stressors   D. Douglas Miller

111

5

Quantitation of Myocardial Perfusion: Absolute Blood Flow Versus Relative Uptake   Thomas H. Schindler and Heinrich R. Schelbert

145

6

Assessment of Cardiac Function: First-Pass, Equilibrium Blood Pool, and Gated Myocardial SPECT   Elias H. Botvinick, Nick G. Costouros, Stephen L. Bacharach, and J. William O’Connell

195

7

Risk Stratification and Patient Management   Rory Hachamovitch, Daniel Berman, Leslee J. Shaw, Guido Germano, and Jennifer H. Mieres

247

8

Imaging Cardiac Metabolism   Heinrich Taegtmeyer and Vasken Dilsizian

289

9

Nuclear Investigation in Heart Failure and Myocardial Viability   Vasken Dilsizian and Jagat Narula

323

10

Diagnosis and Risk Stratification in Acute Coronary Syndromes   James E. Udelson and Chetan Shenoy

361

11

Myocardial Innervation   Markus Schwaiger, Antti Saraste, and Frank M. Bengel

401

12

Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis   Ahmed Tawakol, Jagat Narula, and Farouc A. Jaffer

425

 

Index

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