Nuclear cardiovascular imaging : current clinical practice

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Nuclear cardiovascular imaging : current clinical practice

edited by Milton J. Guiberteau

Churchill Livingstone, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references

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This work contains a series of discussions on the latest nuclear imaging procedures being successfully used in diagnosing coronary artery disease. Various topics receive attention, such as PET scanning, SPECT scanning, imaging for myocardial injury, and risk stratification.

Table of Contents

  • Pathophysiology of coronary heart disease in nuclear imaging
  • radiopharmaceuticals for cardiac imaging
  • imaging acute myocardial injury with radiolabelled-antimyosin
  • radionuclide imaging of resting cardiac function
  • first-pass techniques in the evaluation of ventricular function
  • applications of stress-gated cardiac imaging
  • dipyridamole stress-thallium imaging - technical considerations and clinical application
  • qualitative spect thallium imaging
  • risk stratification and prognostication in coronary artery disease
  • an introduction to the positron camera
  • clinical positron imaging for heart with rubidium-82
  • nuclear vascular imaging - venography.

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