Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine and MRI, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 Quantitation and Clinical Applications Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine Series, Vol. 128

In recent years there have been major advances in the fields of cardiovascular nuclear medicine and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. In nuclear cardiology more adequate tomographic systems have been designed for routine cardiac use, as well as new or improved quantitative analytic software packages both for planar and tomographic studies implemented on modern state-of-the-art workstations. In addition, artificial intelligence techniques are being applied to these images in attempts to interpret the nuclear studies in a more objective and reproducible manner. Various new radiotracers have been developed, such as antimyosin, labeled isonitriles, metabolic compounds, etc. Furthermore, alternative stress testing with dipyridamole and dobutamine has received much attention in clinical cardiac practice. Magnetic resonance imaging is a relative newcomer in cardiology and has already shown its merits, not only for anatomical information but increasingly for the functional aspects of cardiac performance.
This book covers almost every aspect of quantitative cardiovascular nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging. It will assist the nuclear medicine physician, the radiologist, the physicist/image processing specialist and the clinical cardiologist in understanding the nuclear medicine techniques used in cardiovascular medicine, and in increasing our knowledge of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

1. Cardiovascular imaging in the nineties.- I: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (Spect): Technical Aspects.- 2. Reconstruction and filtering methods for quantitative cardiac SPECT imaging.- 3. Volume and activity quantitation in SPECT.- 4. Computer techniques for quality contral in planar imaging and SPECT.- II: Spect: New Developments.- 5. Myocardial ischemia detection by expert system interpretation of thallium-201 tomograms.- 6. Three-dimensional display in SPECT imaging: Principles and applications.- 7. New workstations for nuclear medicine.- 8. Multi-modal data fusion to combine anatomical and physiological information in the head and heart.- 9. Information preserving compression of medical images.- III: Spect: Advances In Cardiovascular Imaging.- 10. Quantitative computer assessment of regional contractility from ECG-gated planar Tc-99m SestaMIBI images.- 11. Myocardial perfusion imaging by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).- 12. Acquisition and processing of tomographic radionuclide ventriculograms.- IV: Cardiovascular Clinical Applications.- 13. New perfusion agents in clinical cardiology.- 14. Clinical application of antimyosin monoclonal antibody imaging in cardiology.- 15. Thallium-201 myocardial imaging.- 16. Tc-99m SestaMIBI: Will it replace TI-201 in clinical cardiology?.- 17. Pharmacologic perfusion imaging: Similar to conventional radionuclide exercise stress testing?.- 18. Acute myocardial infarction: Evaluation by nuclear imaging techniques.- 19. Prognostic assessment of coronary artery disease by exercise radionuclide ventriculography.- V: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- 20. Magnetic resonance imaging of the cardiovascular system.- 21. Evaluation of cardiac function using MRI.- 22. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in myocardial disease.- 23. Assessment of hypertrophy and regression in arterial hypertension: value of rnagnetic resonance imaging.- 24. Magnetic resonance imaging in cardiology: attractive for clinical cardiologists?.