Nuclear Cardiac Imaging Companion Atlas

Ami E. Iskandrian is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Radiology in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. University's School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Fadi G. Hage is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Chief of Cardiology at the Birmingham VA Medical Center and the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Fadi G. Hage is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Chief of Cardiology at the Birmingham VA Medical Center and the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Section I. Historical, Technical and Physiological Considerations

1. Nuclear Cardiology: History and Milestones
2. Radiation physics
3. SPECT and PET Instrumentation
4. Kinetics of Conventional and New Cardiac Radiotracers
5. Radionuclide Angiography: Planar and Tomographic
6. Gated SPECT MPI: Imaging Protocols and Acquisition
7. Image Artifacts

Section II. Diagnosis and Risk Assessment

8. Regulation of Myocardial Blood Flow
9. How to measure Myocardial Blood Flow by PET?
10. How to measure Myocardial Blood flow by SPECT?
11. Treadmill Exercise Testing
12. Pharmacological Stress Testing
13. SPECT MPI in Diagnosis/Risk Assessment
14. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment in special groups (DM, Kidney transplant, Liver transplant, Asymptomatic, Obese)
15. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment before non-cardiac surgery
16. Evaluation of patients with Chest Pain in the Emergency Department
17. Role of PET (Perfusion and MBF) in Diagnosis and Risk Assessment
18. Nuclear Imaging in women
19. Myocardial Viability Assessment by Nuclear Techniques

Section III. Role of Nuclear Imaging Beyond CAD

20. Imaging dyssynchrony
21. Imaging Myocardial Innervation by SPECT and PET
22. Imaging sarcoid heart disease
23. Imaging Amyloid heart disease
24. Imaging infections of valves and devices
25. Imaging cardiac and vascular inflammation
26. Imaging in Heart Failure including those with devices and post cardiac transplant

Section IV. Advances in Nuclear Cardiac Imaging

27. Evolving role of CT, cMR and echo in CAD
28. Hybrid Imaging: SPECT/CTA, PET/MR and SPECT Calcium Score: when and why?
29. Artificial Intelligence and nuclear imaging
30. Nuclear Imaging in patients with serious arrhythmias
31. Nuclear Imaging in patients with HIV
32. Nuclear Imaging in cardio-oncology
33. Nuclear Imaging in patients with congenital heart diseases

Section V. Challenges for Nuclear Cardiology

34. Physician Certification and Lab Accreditation
35. ACC/AHA/ESC Nuclear Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria
36. Nuclear Cardiology Report generation
37. Radiation Considerations in imaging
38. Statistics in Nuclear imaging
39. Nuclear Imaging in Developing Countries
40. Ask the Experts

Section VI. Self-Assessment

41. Nuclear Cardiology Self-Assessment