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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!
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Technical advances that have taken place since the publication of the first edition of this volume are addressed in the first part of the book, including more sophisticated quantitative techniques to characterize perfusion abnormalities, quantitation of ventricular function from gated SPECT, attenuation correction, and the introduction of new radiopharmaceuticals. The second part, focusing on clinical issues, addresses topics including the detection, evaluation, and risk stratification of coronary artery disease by Thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; the clinical application of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT; artifacts in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging; F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose SPECT; and gated blood-pool SPECT, among other topics. Suitable for physicians interpreting cardiac SPECT, as well as for those referring patients for diagnostic imaging. Expanded technical sections may be of use to technologists and basic scientists, as well. Quality color and b&w images. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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