Nuclear Cardiac Imaging

Ami E. Iskandrian, MD, MACC, MASNC is Professor Emeritus, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. Fadi G. Hage, MD, MASNC, FACC is Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, 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- Barry Zaret
2. Radiation physics- James Galt
3. SPECT and PET Instrumentation- James Galt and Ernest Garcia
4. Kinetics of Conventional and New Cardiac Radiotracers- Ran Klein
5. Radionuclide Angiography: Planar and Tomographic- Steven Port
6. Gated SPECT MPI: Imaging Protocols and Acquisition; Processing and Quantitation- Milena Henzlova
7. Image Artifacts- William Van Decker

Section II. Diagnosis and Risk Assessment

8. Regulation of Myocardial Blood Flow: Henry Gewirtz
9. How to measure Myocardial Blood Flow by PET?- Heinrich Schelbert
10. How to measure Myocardial Blood flow by SPECT?- Terrence Ruddy
11. Treadmill Exercise Testing- Gregory Thomas
12. Pharmacological Stress Testing- Effie Andrikopoulou, Ami Iskandrian, Fadi Hage
13. SPECT MPI in Diagnosis/Risk Assessment- Rami Doukky
14. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment in special groups (DM, Kidney transplant, Liver transplant, Asymptomatic, Obese)- Alberto Cuocolo
15. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment before non-cardiac surgery- Lawrence Phillips
16. Evaluation of patients with Chest Pain in the Emergency Department- Jamieson Bourque
17. Role of PET (Perfusion and MBF) in Diagnosis and Risk Assessment - Rob Beanlands
18. Nuclear Imaging in women- Viviany Taqueti
19. Myocardial Viability Assessment by Nuclear Techniques- Vasken Dilsizian

Section III. Role of Nuclear Imaging Beyond CAD

20. Imaging dyssynchrony- Alessia Gimelli
21. Imaging Myocardial Innervation by SPECT and PET- Mark Travin
22. Imaging sarcoid heart disease- Paco Bravo
23. Imaging Amyloid heart disease- Panithaya Chareonthaitawee
24. Imaging infections of valves and devices- Thomas Schindler
25. Imaging cardiac and vascular inflammation- Mehran Sadeghi and Sina Tavakoli
26. Imaging in Heart Failure including those with devices and post cardiac transplant- Prem Soman
Section IV. Advances in Nuclear Cardiac Imaging
27. Evolving role of CT, cMR and echo in CAD- Jeroen BAx
28. Hybrid Imaging: SPECT/CTA, PET/MR and SPECT Calcium Score: when and why?- Philipp Kaufmann and Ronny Buechel
29. Artificial Intelligence and nuclear imaging- Piotr Slomka
30. Nuclear Imaging in patients with serious arrhythmias- Saurabh Malhotra
31. Nuclear Imaging in patients with HIV- Mouaz Al-Mallah
32. Nuclear Imaging in cardio-oncology- Raymond Russell and Matt Harinstein
33. Nuclear Imaging in patients with congenital heart diseases- Sharmila Dorbala and Sara Partington
Section V. Challenges for Nuclear Cardiology
34. Physician Certification and Lab Accreditation- Robert Hendel
35. ACC/AHA/ESC Nuclear Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria- Timothy Christian
36. Nuclear Cardiology Report generation- Wael Aljaroudi
37. Radiation Considerations in imaging- Andrew J Einstein
38. Statistics in Nuclear imaging- Charity Morgan
39. Nuclear Imaging in Developing Countries- Amalia Peix and Diana Paez

Section VI. Overview

40. Ask the Experts- Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ernest V. Garcia

Atlas Chapter 40: Self-Assessment