Clinical Gated Cardiac SPECT

Guido Germano, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine; and Director, Artificial Intelligence Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Daniel S. Berman, MD, is Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine; and Director, Cardiac Imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1: Perfusion and function in the normal and abnormal heart. Francis J. Klocke. Chapter 2: Physics and technical aspects of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. Guido Germano and Daniel S. Berman. Chapter 3: Stress testing and imaging protocols. Sean W. Hayes, Daniel S. Berman, and Guido Germano. Chapter 4: Quantification of myocardial perfusion. Piotr J. Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, and Guido Germano. Chapter 5: Quantification of ventricular function. Guido Germano and Daniel S. Berman. Chapter 6: Interpretation and reporting of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. Daniel S. Berman and Guido Germano. Chapter 7: Artifacts caused by and clarified by gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. E. Gordon DePuey. Chapter 8: Clinical value of combined perfusion and function imaging in the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. Rory Hachamovitch. Chapter 9: Assessment of myocardial perfusion and left ventricular function in acute coronary syndromes: implications for gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. Fahim H. Jafary and James E. Udelson. Chapter 10: Clinical value of assessment of perfusion and function for the evaluation of myocardial viability in patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. Jeroen J. Bax and Don Poldermans. Chapter 11: Quantitative gated blood pool SPECT. Serge D. Van Kriekinge, Daniel S. Berman, and Guido Germano. Chapter 12: Gated positron emission tomography for the assessment of myocardial perfusion and function. Josef Machac. Chapter 13: Comparison of function, viability, and perfusion assessed by myocardial perfusion SPECT and CMR. Louise E.J. Thomson and David S. Fieno. Chapter 14: Complementary roles of cardiac CT and gated myocardial perfusion SPECT or PET in patients with known or suspected CAD. Daniel S. Berman, Leslee J. Shaw, Alan Rozanski, and Guido Germano. Index