Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Ami E. Iskandrian (editor), Fadi G. Hage (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 809
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nuclear cardiac imaging refers to cardiac radiological diagnostic techniques performed with the aid of radiopharmaceuticals, which are perfused into the myocardium as markers. These imaging studies provide a wide range of information about the heart, including the contractility of the heart, the amount of blood supply to the heart and whether parts of the heart muscle are alive or dead. This is essential information for cardiologists, and nuclear imaging has become an increasingly important part of the cardiologist's armamentarium. Chapters in Nuclear Cardiac Imaging cover historical, technical and physiological considerations, diagnosis and prognosis, conditions other than Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), advanced cardiac imaging, and challenges and opportunities. New to the sixth edition are key point summaries at the start of each chapter, clinical cases with videos, and a question and answer chapter on practical issues. This volume is ideal for nuclear cardiologists in training and nuclear clinicians alike who are searching for quick answers to important clinical and technical questions.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Nuclear Cardiac Imaging
Copyright
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