Nuclear Cardiac Imaging

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