Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine and MRI

• 1. Cardiovascular imaging in the nineties.- I: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (Spect): Technical Aspects.- 2. Reconstruction and filtering methods for quantitative cardiac SPECT imaging.- 3. Volume and activity quantitation in SPECT.- 4. Computer techniques for quality contral in planar imaging and SPECT.- II: Spect: New Developments.- 5. Myocardial ischemia detection by expert system interpretation of thallium-201 tomograms.- 6. Three-dimensional display in SPECT imaging: Principles and applications.- 7. New workstations for nuclear medicine.- 8. Multi-modal data fusion to combine anatomical and physiological information in the head and heart.- 9. Information preserving compression of medical images.- III: Spect: Advances In Cardiovascular Imaging.- 10. Quantitative computer assessment of regional contractility from ECG-gated planar Tc-99m SestaMIBI images.- 11. Myocardial perfusion imaging by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).- 12. Acquisition and processing of tomographic radionuclide ventriculograms.- IV: Cardiovascular Clinical Applications.- 13. New perfusion agents in clinical cardiology.- 14. Clinical application of antimyosin monoclonal antibody imaging in cardiology.- 15. Thallium-201 myocardial imaging.- 16. Tc-99m SestaMIBI: Will it replace TI-201 in clinical cardiology?.- 17. Pharmacologic perfusion imaging: Similar to conventional radionuclide exercise stress testing?.- 18. Acute myocardial infarction: Evaluation by nuclear imaging techniques.- 19. Prognostic assessment of coronary artery disease by exercise radionuclide ventriculography.- V: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- 20. Magnetic resonance imaging of the cardiovascular system.- 21. Evaluation of cardiac function using MRI.- 22. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in myocardial disease.- 23. Assessment of hypertrophy and regression in arterial hypertension: value of rnagnetic resonance imaging.- 24. Magnetic resonance imaging in cardiology: attractive for clinical cardiologists?.

'The book will appeal to any involved in the application of these techniques, whether cardiologist, nuclear medicine physician, radiologist of physicist. It should be a reference book for students of Nuclear Medicine and in continuing education programmes.' Clin. Phys. Physol. Meas. 13:3 1992