EACVI HANDBOOK OF NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY

Part of the European Society of Cardiology portfolio of titles, the EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology serves as a user-friendly clinical guide to the field of nuclear cardiology. Covering all aspects of this ever-expanding area, it is an indispensable tool in the diagnosis and management of patients with heart failure (ischemic and non-ischemic), amyloid heart disease, endocarditis, myocarditis, and cardiac sarcoidosis. The handbook includes many images, tables, and bullet points that can be used daily in your busy practice to refresh your memory on various cardiac pathologies. The illustrations are derived from a typical clinical practice and the easy accessible format allows you as a reader to focus on the “typical findings” of various cardiac pathologies. Written by an international collection of experts this concise and practical handbook will appeal to students, trainees or advanced users; cardiologists, radiologists, cardiac surgeons or technicians, in their everyday practice.

Table of Contents:

1 Radionuclide physics

1.1 Atomic structure

1.2 Atomic and nuclear transitions

1.3 Nuclides and radionuclides

1.4 Radioactive decay

1.5 Modes of decay

1.6 Imaging considerations

1.7 Production of radionuclides

2 Instrumentation

2.1 Overview

2.2 Single-photon emission computed tomography

2.3 Positron emission tomography

2.4 Hybrid imaging

3 Radiopharmaceuticals

3.1 General considerations

3.2 Single-photon emission computed tomography

3.3 Positron emission tomography

3.4 Estimation of effective radiation dose

4 Radiation safety

4.1 Potential adverse effects of radiation

4.2 Effective dose

4.3 Radiation protection

5 Cardiovascular stress

5.1 Stress physiology and pharmacology

5.2 ECG interpretation

5.3 Dynamic exercise

5.4 Pharmacological stress

5.5 Indications and contraindications

6 Methodology

6.1 Imaging protocols

6.2 ECG gating

6.3 Image processing

6.4 Assessment of ischaemia and scar burden

6.5 Parametric imaging

6.6 Attenuation and other corrections

7 Image interpretation

7.1 Myocardial perfusion: SPECT

7.2 Myocardial perfusion: PET

7.3 Blood pool imaging

7.4 Myocardial innervation

7.5 Artefacts

8 Radionuclide imaging in clinical cardiology

8.1 Indications for myocardial perfusion imaging

8.2 Myocardial perfusion

8.3 Indications

8.4 Guidelines and appropriate use criteria

8.5 Relative contraindications for myocardial perfusion imaging

8.6 Contraindications for exercise myocardial perfusion imaging

8.7 Guidelines and appropriate use criteria (AUC)

8.8 Comparison with other imaging techniques

9 Radionuclide imaging in ischaemic heart disease

9.1 Stable coronary artery disease

9.2 Unstable coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction

10 Radionuclide imaging in heart failure

10.1 Assessment of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function

10.2 Ventricular resynchronization therapy

10.3 Myocardial viability, stunning, and hibernation

10.4 Myocardial innervation

10.5 Assessment of right ventricular function

11 Amyloidosis

11.1 Amyloidosis

11.2 Case reports

12 Radionuclide imaging in myocardial and other disorders

12.1 Primary myocardial disorders

12.2 Secondary myocardial disorders

12.3 Imaging of infection and other forms of inflammation

13 Radionuclide imaging in congenital heart disease

13.1 Coronary anomalies

13.2 Myocardial bridging

13.3 Shunts and complex anomalies after surgical repair

13.4 Coronary anomalies in adults

14 Radionuclide imaging in heart and lung disease

14.1 Chronic obstructive lung disease

14.2 Primary pulmonary hypertension

15 Important findings on tomographic and CT images for attenuation correction

15.1 Coronary calcification

15.2 Non-coronary cardiac findings

15.3 Non-cardiac findings

Index