Cardiac CT, PET and MR (eBook)

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, MASNC, FACC, FAHA, Professor of Medicine and Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA Gerald M. Pohost, MD, FACC, FAHA, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging, Westside Medical Imaging, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

Contributors vii

Foreword xi
Robert O. Bonow

1 Positron Emission Tomography 1
Juan Jose Vaquero and Stephen L. Bacharach

2 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 38
Joseph Selvanayagam, Gaetano Nucifora, and Stefan Neubauer

3 Cardiac Computed Tomography 91
Dahlia Banerji, Sandeep Hedgire, and Udo Hoffmann

4 PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Progress in Quantitative Assessment of Blood Flow and Flow Reserve 129
Thomas H. Schindler, Ines Valenta, and Vasken Dilsizian

5 PET Imaging of Myocardial Metabolism in Health and Disease 175
Robert J. Gropler and Linda R. Peterson

6 PET Imaging of Autonomic Innervation and Receptors 203
James T. Thackeray and Frank M. Bengel

7 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Angiography 236
R. Reeve Ingle, Amr A. Youssef , Dwight G. Nishimura, and Phillip C. Yang

8 CMR to Assess Morphology, Function, Perfusion, and Viability 282
Himanshu Gupta, Oleg F. Sharifov, Heewon Kim, Kuncheng Li, and Gerald M. Pohost

9 Cardiac CT for Coronary Imaging 327
Marisa Lubbers and Koen Nieman

10 Multislice CT: Myocardial Function, Perfusion, and Viability 345
Raymond T. Yan, Richard T. George, and Joao A. C. Lima

11 Cardiac CT and MR for the Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Setting 366
Nupur Verma, Tan-Lucien Mohammed, and Charles S. White

12 Noninvasive Imaging of High-Risk Plaque 388
Amir Ahmadi, Farouc A. Jaffer, and Jagat Narula

13 Molecular Imaging Targets in Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Remodeling 405
Nabil E. Boutagy, Attila Feher, Saad Sikanderkhel, and Albert J. Sinusas

14 Nuclear Imaging Guidance for Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias 436
John Duell, Mark F. Smith, Wengen Chen, Vasken Dilsizian, and Timm-Michael L. Dickfeld

Index 450