Thallium Myocardial Perfusion Tomography in Clinical Cardiology

1 Introduction.- 2 Radiopharmaceuticals.- Myocardial Perfusion Tracers.- Thallium-201.- Technetium-99m 2-Methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile.- Technetium-99m Teboroxime.- 3 Stress Techniques.- Drug Treatment.- Dynamic Exercise.- Pharmacological Stress.- Choice of Stress Technique.- 4 Imaging Techniques.- The Gamma Camera.- Emission Tomography.- Patient Preparation.- Data Acquisition.- Data Processing.- 5 Image Interpretation.- Quality Control.- Normal Appearances.- Abnormal Appearances.- Coronary Anatomy.- Quantification.- 6 Clinical Case Material.- The Normal Heart.- Normal Variants.- Single Vessel Reversible Ischaemia.- Single Vessel Myocardial Infarction.- Two Vessel Reversible Ischaemia.- Two Vessel Myocardial Infarction.- Three Vessel Reversible Ischaemia.- Three Vessel Myocardial Infarction.- Mixed Reversible Ischaemia and Infarction.- Prognosis Before Angiography.- Prognosis After Angiography.- Adverse Prognostic Signs.- Coronary Angioplasty.- Coronary Bypass Grafting.- ECG Correlations.- Coronary Angiogram Correlations.- Other Cardiology.- Quantification.- Pharmacological Stress.- Chest Pain and Ischaemia.- Artefacts.- Reperfusion.- 7 Clinical Applications.- Detection of Coronary Artery Disease.- Management of Established Coronary Artery Disease.- Prognosis in Coronary Artery Disease.- 8 The Future.- Instrumentation.- Radiopharmaceuticals.- Alternative Imaging Techniques.