Cardiac CT, PET and MR

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.

Spis treści:
Provisional list of contents, and contributors.
Preface. Integrated Approach to Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging: A Clinical Justification.
Robert O. Bonow.
Part I. Instrumentation, Imaging Techniques, and Protocols.
Chapter 1. Positron Emission Tomography.
Stephen L. Bacharach.
Chapter 2. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Basic Principles, Methods and Techniques.
Joseph B. Selvanayagam, Matthew D. Robson, Jane M. Francis, Stefan Neubauer.
Chapter 3. Multidetector Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Udo Hoffman – MGH.
Part II. Clinical Applications.
Chapter 4. PET Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion.< br>Marcelo DiCarli.
Chapter 5. PET Metabolism.
Robert Gropler and Vasken Dilsizian.
Chapter 6. PET Innervation and Receptors.
Frank M. Bengel and Markus Schwaiger.
Chapter 7. CMRA: Coronaries and Great Vessels.
Patricia Nguyen and Philip Yang.
Chapter 8. CMR: Evaluation of Myocardial Function, Perfusion and Viability.
Padmini Varadarajan, Karam Souibri, Krishna Nayak, Gerald M. Pohost.
Chapter 9. CCT Coronary Imaging.
Koen Nieman.
Chapter 10. CCT: Myocardial Perfusion, Function, and Viability.
Stephan Achenbach.
Chapter 11. CCT and MRI in the Emergency Department.
Charles White and Andrew Arai.
Part III. Concurrent Noninvasive Assessment of Coronary Anatomy, Physiology, and Myocellular Integrity.
Chapter 12. PET and MRI in Cardiac Imaging.
Stephan Nekolla.
Chapter 13. PET and CT in Cardiac Imaging: Is a Paradigm Shift from SPECT to Hybrid PET/CT Inevitable?.
Henning Braess and Vasken Dilsizian.
Chapter 14. Image–Guided Electrophysiology Mapping and Ablation.
Timm Dickfeld.
Chapter 15. Identification of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque by Radionuclide and CT techniques.
Jagat Narula.
Chapter 16. Vulnerable plaque by Magnetic Resonance Methods.
Valentine Fuster, MD

Nota biograficzna:
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