Nuclear Cardiac Imaging

Ami E. Iskandrian is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Chief of Nuclear Cardiology in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Ernest V. Garcia is an Endowed Professor in Cardiac Imaging in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University's School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

Section I. Historical, Technical and Physiological Considerations ; 1. Nuclear Cardiology: History and Milestones ; 2. Radiation physics and Radiation Safety ; 3. SPECT and PET Instrumentation: Conventional and New ; 4. Kinetics of Conventional and New Cardiac Radiotracers ; 5. Radionuclide Angiography: Planar and Tomographic ; 6. Gated SPECT MPI: Imaging Protocols and Acquisition ; 7. Gated SPECT MPI Processing and Quantitation ; 8. Image Artifacts ; 9. Attenuation Correction ; 10. Pharmacological Stress Testing ; Section II. Diagnosis and Risk Assessment ; 11. Treadmill Exercise Testing ; 12. Gated SPECT Perfusion in Diagnosis/Risk Assessment in Stable Patients ; 13. Risk Assessment in Acute Coronary Syndromes ; 14. Risk Assessment Before Noncardiac Surgery ; 15. Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Before and After Cardiac Revascularization ; 16. Screening Asymptomatic Subjects ; 17. Role of Imaging in Chronic Kidney Disease ; 18. Role of Imaging in Diabetes Mellitus ; 19. Imaging Patients with Chest Pain in the Emergency Department ; 20. Role of PET in Diagnosis and Risk Assessment in Patients with Known or Suspected CAD ; 21. Myocardial Viability Assessment: Nuclear Techniques and Clinical Implications ; Section III. Role of Nuclear Imaging Beyond CAD ; 22. Phase analysis for Dyssynchrony by MPI and MUGA ; 23. Imaging Myocardial Innervation ; 24. Measurements of Myocardial Blood Flow by Imaging ; 25. Imaging of Myocardial Metabolism ; 26. Inflammatory, Infiltrative Diseases, and Tumors ; 27. Radionuclide Imaging in Heart Failure ; Section IV. Advances in Cardiac Imaging ; 28. Hybrid Imaging ; 29. Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging ; 30. Use of Artificial Intelligence Including Decision Support Systems in Cardiac Imaging ; Section V. Challenges for Nuclear Cardiology ; 31. Physician Certification and Lab Accreditation ; 32. Cost-Effectiveness of Imaging with Nuclear Cardiology ; 33. Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria ; 34. Radiation Considerations ; 35. Practical Issues: Ask the Experts