Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, MASNC, FACC, FAHAProfessor of Medicine and RadiologyDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear MedicineUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine22 S. Greene Street, Room N2W78Baltimore, MD 21201, USAJagat Narula, MD, PhD, MACC, MASNCPhilip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Professor of MedicineChief, Division of CardiologyMount Sinai Hospital MorningsideAssociate Dean for Global HealthIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai421 W. 113th Street, Suite #130New York, NY 10025, USA

• Chapter 1. A Brief History of Nuclear Cardiology.- Chapter 2. Principles of Nuclear Cardiology Imaging.- Chapter 3. Radionuclide Handling Techniques and Radiation Safety.- Chapter 4. SPECT and PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Tracers and Techniques.- Chapter 5. Physiologic and Pharmacologic Stressors.- Chapter 6. Clinical Coronary Physiology and Quantitative Myocardial Perfusion.- Chapter 7. Assessment of Cardiac Function: First-Pass, Equilibrium Blood Pool, and Gated Myocardial SPECT.- Chapter 8. Risk Stratification and Patient Management.- Chapter 9. Imaging Cardiac Metabolism.- Chapter 10. Myocardial Viability.- Chapter 11. Myocardial Innervation.- Chapter 12. Diagnosis and Risk Stratification in Acute Coronary Syndromes.- Chapter 13. Imaging Cardiac Sarcoidosis, Amyloidosis, and Cardiovascular Prosthetic Infections.- Chapter 14. Molecular Imaging of Inflammation and Calcification in Atherosclerosis: Clinical Relevance and Evolving Applicationsa.