• Introduction.- Autonomic nervous system of the heart.- Pathophysiology of the autonomic nervous system of the heart.- Tracers for Presynaptic Cardiac Innervation.- Tracers of Adrenergic Receptors.- Tracers of the Parasympathetic System.- Radiopharmaceuticals production under GMP.- Physics of PET-CT and SPECT-CT.- Kinetics & software PET.- SPECT-CT imaging of autonomic innervation in heart diseases.- PET-CT imaging of autonomic innervation in heart diseases.- Imaging ischemic heart disease.- Imaging diabetes mellitus.- Imaging heart failure.- Imaging amyloidosis.- Imaging heart transplantation.- Imaging ventricular arrhythmias.- Guided therapy & imaging.- Imaging the functional brain-heart axis: neurodegenerative diseases.- Imaging the functional brain-heart axis: mental stress & anxiety.- Imaging cardiotoxicity: the effects of chemo- and mono-clonal antibody therapy on autonomic innervation.- Imaging cardiotoxicity: the effect of radiotherapy on autonomic innervation.- Summary and Future Perspectives: PET-MRI Imaging of cardiac Innervation, fluorescence imaging of cardiac innervation.- Epilog.- Index.

"This book represents a qualified, extensive and updated book on the role of molecular imaging of the autonomic innervations of the heart, which can generate the interest of all the nuclear physicians, residents, cardiologists, neurologists, and basic scientists, and of all others who want to be introduced to a very intriguing new field of clinical applications, in which other knowledge and methodological improvements are needed to support a wider diffusion in clinical practice." (Valentina Piscopo and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, March, 2016)

• Introduction.- Autonomic nervous system of the heart.- Pathophysiology of the autonomic nervous system of the heart.- Tracers for Presynaptic Cardiac Innervation.- Tracers of Adrenergic Receptors.- Tracers of the Parasympathetic System.- Radiopharmaceuticals production under GMP.- Physics of PET-CT and SPECT-CT.- Kinetics & software PET.- SPECT-CT imaging of autonomic innervation in heart diseases.- PET-CT imaging of autonomic innervation in heart diseases.- Imaging ischemic heart disease.- Imaging diabetes mellitus.- Imaging heart failure.- Imaging amyloidosis.- Imaging heart transplantation.- Imaging ventricular arrhythmias.- Guided therapy & imaging.- Imaging the functional brain-heart axis: neurodegenerative diseases.- Imaging the functional brain-heart axis: mental stress & anxiety.- Imaging cardiotoxicity: the effects of chemo- and mono-clonal antibody therapy on autonomic innervation.- Imaging cardiotoxicity: the effect of radiotherapy on autonomic innervation.- Summary and Future Perspectives: PET-MRI Imaging of cardiac Innervation, fluorescence imaging of cardiac innervation.- Epilog.- Index.

"This book represents a qualified, extensive and updated book on the role of molecular imaging of the autonomic innervations of the heart, which can generate the interest of all the nuclear physicians, residents, cardiologists, neurologists, and basic scientists, and of all others who want to be introduced to a very intriguing new field of clinical applications, in which other knowledge and methodological improvements are needed to support a wider diffusion in clinical practice." (Valentina Piscopo and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, March, 2016)

• Introduction.- Autonomic nervous system of the heart.- Pathophysiology of the autonomic nervous system of the heart.- Tracers for Presynaptic Cardiac Innervation.- Tracers of Adrenergic Receptors.- Tracers of the Parasympathetic System.- Radiopharmaceuticals production under GMP.- Physics of PET-CT and SPECT-CT.- Kinetics & software PET.- SPECT-CT imaging of autonomic innervation in heart diseases.- PET-CT imaging of autonomic innervation in heart diseases.- Imaging ischemic heart disease.- Imaging diabetes mellitus.- Imaging heart failure.- Imaging amyloidosis.- Imaging heart transplantation.- Imaging ventricular arrhythmias.- Guided therapy & imaging.- Imaging the functional brain-heart axis: neurodegenerative diseases.- Imaging the functional brain-heart axis: mental stress & anxiety.- Imaging cardiotoxicity: the effects of chemo- and mono-clonal antibody therapy on autonomic innervation.- Imaging cardiotoxicity: the effect of radiotherapy on autonomic innervation.- Summary and Future Perspectives: PET-MRI Imaging of cardiac Innervation, fluorescence imaging of cardiac innervation.- Epilog.- Index.

"This book represents a qualified, extensive and updated book on the role of molecular imaging of the autonomic innervations of the heart, which can generate the interest of all the nuclear physicians, residents, cardiologists, neurologists, and basic scientists, and of all others who want to be introduced to a very intriguing new field of clinical applications, in which other knowledge and methodological improvements are needed to support a wider diffusion in clinical practice." (Valentina Piscopo and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, March, 2016)