Cardiac SPECT Imaging

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E. Gordon DePuey, Ernest V. Garcia, Daniel Sholom Berman
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001 - Medical - 349 pages
Cardiac SPECT Imaging, Second Edition offers the best of all possible worlds--a critical topic, internationally recognized authors and cutting-edge coverage. It guides you through all aspects of the modality--from basic principles (acquiring and processing images, quality control)...and clinical applications (evaluating myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease)...to the very latest equipment. It even compares SPECT with other modalities (PET, CT, MRI, and echocardiography) to ensure smart, cost-effective decisions by both the cardiologist and nuclear medicine physician.Look for new chapters on attenuation correction, gated perfusion SPECT, radiopharmaceuticals, and myocardial perfusion SPECT, as well as the very latest on myocardial perfusion SPECT in conjunction with exercise and pharmacologic stress, assessment of perfusion/viability with Tc-99m agents, how SPECT compares with other advanced cardiac imaging modalities, and more!
 

Contents

Quality Control for SPECT Imaging
17
Quantitative Analysis of SPECT Myocardial Perfusion
41
Advanced Computer Methods in Cardiac SPECT
65
Advances in Instrumentation for Cardiac SPECT
81
Attenuation Correction in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
89
Technical Considerations
103
Radiopharmaceuticals
117
Detection Evaluation and Risk Stratification of Coronary Artery Disease
149
Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Viability with Technetium99m
179
Clinical Application of Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
211
Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy in Conjunction with Exercise
263
CostEffectiveness of Myocardial Perfusion SPECT
297
F18 Fluorodeoxyglucose SPECT
311
Subject Index
342
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