(eBook) Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology 4th Edition by Vasken Dilsizian, Jagat Narula

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Table of Contents

Principles of nuclear cardiology imaging.- SPECT and PET myocardial perfusion imaging: tracers and techniques.- Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT imaging.- Physiologic and pharmacologic stressors.- Quantitation of myocardial perfusion: absolute blood flow versus relative uptake.- Assessment of cardiac function: first-pass, equilibrium blood pool, and gated myocardial SPECT.- Risk stratification and patient management.- Imaging cardiac metabolism.- Nuclear investigation in heart failure and myocardial viability.- Diagnosis and risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes.- Myocardial innervation.- Integrated structural-molecular imaging of atherosclerosis.