Novel techniques for imaging the heart
Subtitle: cardiac MR and CT
By: edited by Marcelo Di Carli, Raymond Kwong.
Contributors: Di Carli, Marcelo F.; Kwong, Raymond Y.; American Heart Association.
Series: AHA clinical series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781405175333
Subjects: Heart -- Magnetic resonance imaging; Heart -- Tomography; Heart Diseases -- diagnosis; Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- methods; Tomography, X-Ray Computed -- methods
Description: Part of the AHA Clinical Series, Novel Techniques in Imaging the Heart brings the recent dramatic changes in the field of cardiovascular imaging into the clinical setting. With the most up-to-date information on CT and MRI, this book enables the clinician to best use the technology at hand.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Principles of CT and MR imaging / Leon Axel, Danny Kim; title: Clinical considerations on the use of contrast agents for CT and CMR / Federico E. Mordini, Robert R. Edelman; title: Radiation dose considerations in cardiac CT / Mannudeep K. Kalra, Suhny Abbara; title: Safety considerations of current and evolving CMR techniques and hardware / Saman Nazarian, Henry R. Halperin, David A. Bluemke; title: Evaluating the symptomatic patient with suspected CAD / Bernhard L. Gerber; title: Evaluation of atherosclerotic plaques with CT and MRI / Ilan Gottlieb, João AC Lima; title: Evaluating chest pain in patients with known coronary artery disease / Amit R. Patel, Christopher M. Kramer; title: Evaluating the patient with LV dysfunction for potential revascularization / Michael Salerno, Han W. Kim, Raymond J. Kim; title: Role of hybrid imaging : PET/CT and SPECT/CT / Marcelo F. Di Carli; title: Critical review of imaging approaches for diagnosis and prognosis of CAD / Rory Hachamovitch, George Beller; title: Evaluating the patient with new onset heart failure / Joseph Selvanayagam, Theo D. Karamitsos; title: Evaluating the patient before non-cardiac surgery / William O. Ntim, Rahul Aggarwal, W. Gregory Hundley; title: Evaluating the patient before interventional electrophysiology / Riple J. Hansalia, Mario J. Garcia; title: Assessment of blood flow and heart valve disease by CMR / Philip J. Kilner; title: Relative merits of CTA and MRA for coronary artery imaging / Xin Liu, James Carr, Debiao Li; title: Can atherosclerosis imaging improve patient management? / Allen J. Taylor, Robert O. Bonow; title: Atherosclerosis imaging : a biological and clinical perspective / Peter Libby; title: Stem cell imaging / Dara L. Kraitchman; title: Myocardial imaging in CAD : beyond ischemia and viability / Susan Kwon, Henry Wu, Raymond Y. Kwong; title: Technical advances and the future prospects of high field MRI / Ahmed M. Gharib, Matthias Stuber, Roderic I. Pettigrew; title: Technical advances in MSCT for imaging coronary artery stenoses and physiology / Humberto Wong, Elsie T. Nguyen, Geoffrey D. Rubin; title: Imaging of myocardial mechanics / Hiroshi Ashikaga, Elliot R. McVeigh; title: Cardiovascular interventional MRI / Colin Berry, Robert J. Lederman.