What’s New in Cardiac Imaging?: SPECT, PET, and MRI

What’s New in Cardiac Imaging?: SPECT, PET, and MRI
ISBN-10
9401124566
ISBN-13
9789401124560
Category
Medical
Pages
550
Language
English
Published
2012-12-06
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Ernst E. van der Wall, H. Sochor, A. Righetti

Description

Since the introduction of myocardial perfusion imaging and radionuclide angiography in the mid-seventies, cardiovascular nuclear medicine has undergone an explosive growth. The use of nuclear cardiology techniques has become one of the cornerstones of the noninvasive assessment of coronary artery disease. In the past 15 years major steps have been made from visual analysis to quantitative analysis, from planar imaging to tomographic imaging, from detection of disease to prognosis, and from separate evaluations of perfusion, metabolism, and function to an integrated assessment of myocardial viability. In recent years many more advances have been made in cardiovascular nuclear imaging, such as the development of new imaging agents, reevaluation of existing procedures, and new clinical applications. This book describes the most recent developments in nuclear cardiology and also addresses new contrast agents in MRI. What's New in Cardiac Imaging will assist the clinical cardiologist, the cardiology fellow, the nuclear medicine physician, and the radiologist in understanding the most recent achievements in clinical cardiovascular nuclear imaging.

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