Digital Cardiac Imaging

1. Myocardial imaging: The promise and challenge of digital image processing.- One: Basic Considerations.- 2. Digital image processing.- 3. Basic physical principles of cardiac imaging systems.- 4. Computer hardware considerations in digital imaging.- 5. Physiologic concepts in cardiac imaging: Flow-function relations in acutely ischemic myocardium.- 6. A geometric foundation for the study of left ventricular motion: Some tensor considerations.- Two: Clinical Applications.- 7. The analysis of left ventricular function with digital subtraction angiography.- 8. Digital radiographic assessment of coronary flow reserve.- 9. Quantitative coronary arteriography.- 10. Clinical application of cardiac CT.- 11. Digital two-dimensional echocardiography.- 12. Doppler echocardiography: Basic principles and clinical applications.- 13. Radionuclide imaging of the heart.- 14. Positron emission computed tomography.- 15. Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart.- 16. Future directions and integrative approaches in digital cardiac imaging.- Index of subjects.