Cardiac CT, PET and MR

by Dilsizian, Vasken; Pohost, Gerald M.

• ISBN13: 9781405185530
• ISBN10: 1405185538
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Society-sanctioned guidelines on care are valuable tools, but accessing key information from the often complicated statements has been a daunting task. Now, practitioners and their institutions have a clear path to successful application of guidelines from the American Heart Association.This book outlines the key AHA guidelines, Statements, and Performance Measures and includes comparisons with the associated European guidelines, and offers a strong online component, which alerts users who sign up to new updates to the guidelines and other relevant information, plus provides links through to the full guidelines and statements.This careful revision keeps pace with developments in the field, with new chapters on PET Metabolism, CT and MRI in the Emergency Department, Image-Guided Electrophysiology Mapping and Ablation, and Identification of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque by Radionuclide and CT techniques, plus the introduction of new contributors Udo Hoffman and Stephan Achenbach.Praised in its previous edition as a concise source of essential information, this new edition presents the most recent information in an accessible format and serves as an excellent reference source for all cardiologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians.

Author Biography

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Director, Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging
Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland

Gerald M. Pohost, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Radiology
Keck School of Medicine and Professor of Electrical Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Table of Contents

Preface

Integrated Approach to Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging: A Clinical Justification

Instrumentation, Imaging Techniques, and Protocols

Positron Emission Tomography

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Basic Principles, Methods and Techniques

Multidetector Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Clinical Applications

PET Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion

PET Metabolism

PET Innervation and Receptors

CMRA: Coronaries and Great Vessels

CMR: Evaluation of Myocardial Function, Perfusion and Viability

CCT Coronary Imaging

CCT: Myocardial Perfusion, Function, and Viability

CCT and MRI in the Emergency Department

Concurrent Noninvasive Assessment of Coronary Anatomy, Physiology, and Myocellular Integrity

PET and MRI in Cardiac Imaging

PET and CT in Cardiac Imaging: Is a Paradigm Shift from SPECT to Hybrid PET/CT Inevitable?

Image-Guided Electrophysiology Mapping and Ablation

Identification of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque by Radionuclide and CT techniques

Vulnerable plaque by Magnetic Resonance Methods

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