Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart (eBook)

Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, FACC, FAHA Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Harvard Medical School Chief of Nuclear Medicine/PET Co-Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Harvard Medical School Co-Director of Cardiac MRI program Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA

Contributors.

Preface.

Forewords.

PART I General Considerations and Fundamentals of
Imaging.

1 Principles of CT and MRI (Leon Axel and Danny Kim).

2 Clinical Considerations on the Use of Contrast Agents for CT
and MRI (Federico E. Mordini and Robert R. Edelman).

3 Radiation Dose Considerations in Cardiac CT (Mannudeep K.
Kalra and Suhny Abbara).

4 Safety Considerations of Current and Evolving CMR Techniques
and Hardware (Saman Nazarian, Henry R. Halperin, and David A.
Bluemke).

PART II Clinical Applications of CT and CMR Imaging.

5 Evaluating the Symptomatic Patient with Suspected CAD
(Bernhard L. Gerber).

6 Evaluation of Atherosclerotic Plaques with CT and MRI (Ilan
Gottlieb and Jo~ao A.C. Lima).

7 Evaluating Chest Pain in Patients with Known CAD (Amit R.
Patel and Christopher M. Kramer).

8 Evaluating the Patient with LV Dysfunction for Potential
Revascularization (Michael Salerno, Han W. Kim, and Raymond J.
Kim).

9 Role of Hybrid Imaging: PET/CT and SPECT/CT (Marcelo F. Di
Carli).

10 Critical Review of Imaging Approaches for the Diagnosis and
Prognosis of CAD (Rory Hachamovitch and George A.
Beller).

11 Evaluating the Patient with New Onset Heart Failure
(Joseph B. Selvanayagam and Theodoros D. Karamitsos).

12 Evaluating the Patient before Noncardiac Surgery (William
O. Ntim, Rahul Aggarwal, and W. Gregory Hundley).

13 Evaluating the Patient before Interventional
Electrophysiology (Riple J. Hansalia and Mario J.
Garcia).

14 Assessment of Blood Flow and Heart Valve Disease by CMR
(Philip J. Kilner).

15 Relative Merits of CTA and MRA for Coronary Artery Imaging
(Xin Liu, James C. Carr, and Debiao Li).

16 Can Atherosclerosis Imaging Improve Patient Management?
(Allen J. Taylor and Robert O. Bonow).

PART III Advanced Applications of CT and CMR Imaging.

17 Atherosclerosis Imaging: A Biological and Clinical
Perspective (Peter Libby).

18 Stem Cell Imaging (Dara L. Kraitchman).

19 Myocardial Imaging in CAD: Beyond Ischemia and Viability
(Susan H. Kwon, Henry Wu, and Raymond Y. Kwong).

20 Technical Advances and the Future Prospects of High Field
Strength MRI (Ahmed M. Gharib, Matthias Stuber, and Roderic I.
Pettigrew).

21 Technical Advances in MDCT for Imaging Coronary Artery
Stenoses and Physiology (Humberto Wong, Elsie T. Nguyen, and
Geoffrey D. Rubin).

22 Imaging of Myocardial Mechanics (Hiroshi Ashikaga and
Elliot R. McVeigh).

23 Cardiovascular Interventional MRI (Colin Berry and Robert
J. Lederman).

Index.

A companion CD-ROM with video clips is included at the back of
the book.

"This book will provide evidence and update the interested reader on two non-invasive, and often complimentary, exciting advanced imaging techniques: cardiac MR and cardiac CT." (Cardiology News, 1 December 2011)