From Basic Cardiac Imaging to Image Fusion

Paolo Marzullo, MD, FESC, FACC, is Director of the Nuclear Medicine Department at the Monasterio Foundation, Pisa, Italy. Founding member of the European and Italian Working Groups on Nuclear Cardiology, he is author of over 450 publications in the field of cardiac imaging, including cardiac CT and MRI. Giuliano Mariani, MD, is Full Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Director of the Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine and of the Post-graduate Specialty School in Nuclear Medicine of the University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy. Starting with pharmacokinetic studies using radioactive tracers in humans his research interests encompass virtually all clinical applications of nuclear medicine for both diagnosis and therapy. Author of over 270 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, book editor and contributor in the fields of pharmacokinetics with radioactive tracers and diagnostic and therapeutic applications of nuclear medicine.

• Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology of coronary circulation as a basis for imaging.- How should we stress the human heart.- Myocardial perfusion imaging: the role of SPECT, PET, and CMR.- Innervation of the heart: imaging findings using [123I]-MIBG scintigraphy in different pathologies.- How to reduce the radiation burden in Cardiac CT.- How to reduce the radiation burden in Cardiac SPECT.- Will 3D imaging of the heart replace pathology?.- Image fusion and coregistration: state of the (he)art.- Diagnostic algorithms in patients with suspected coronary artery disease: guidelines and evidence-based behaviours.-