Title: Nuclear cardiology : state of the art and future directions /
Authors: Zaret, Barry L.; Beller, George.
Publisher: Mosby,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Heart Radionuclide imaging; Heart radionuclide imaging.; Coronary Disease radionuclide imaging.
Contents: Radiopharmaceuticals/tracer kinetics -- Overview of kinetics and modeling -- Kinetics on a cellular level -- Tracer kinetics in the isolated heart model -- Role of intact biological models for evaluation of radiotracers -- Animal models for the study of positron emission tomography tracers -- Fatty acid analogs -- Nitroimidazoles for imaging hypoxic myocardium -- Instrumentation -- Future developments in single-photon emission computed tomography quantification and display -- Recent advances in cardiac positron emission tomography -- Correction of attenuation and scatter for single-photon emission computed tomography -- Dynamic cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography -- Ventricular function -- Monitoring of left venticular function with miniaturized non-imaging detectors -- Measurement of ventricular function and volume -- Regional and global ventricular function analysis with SPECT perfusion imaging -- Perfusion imaging in chronic coronary disease --^