Cardiovascular PET: Current Concepts

Filling a void in the medical literature, this much needed resource clearly and succinctly reviews the current knowledge and practical aspects of cardiovascular PET. With coverage that spans everything from instrumentation to clinical procedures to the future directions of cardiac PET, the intent and focus of this book is to provide readers with the most current, reliable, and clinically relevant data in one concise, focused resource. 

Essential for anyone preparing for the board exam in nuclear medicine, Cardiovascular PET: Current Concepts is organized into six sections:

• Current Concepts of Cardiovascular PET Imaging: The New Paradigm

• Clinical Overview of Contemporary Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with Cardiac PET

• Quantitative Myocardial Blood Flow Assessment

• Technical Developments in Cardiovascular PET

• Myocardial Viability Assessment: The Current Rule of Cardiac PET

• Current Status of Assessment of Cardiovascular Inflammation and Infection Imaging

Each chapter concludes with an informative “Editor’s Perspective” in which one of the editors places the material discussed in the chapter into real-world clinical perspective.

If you would like a better understanding of cardiovascular PET, or want to incorporate it into your own clinical practice, this book is required reading.

Contents

Section I: Technical Developments in Cardiovascular PET

1.    Cardiovascular PET Cameras: detectors: BSO vs. LSO/LYSO, line source vs. hybrid PET/CT, 3-D versus 2D acquisition, etc

2.    Cyclotrons, Generators, Delivery systems for Cardiac PET imaging

3.    Radiation Exposure with Cardiovascular PET: new data

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              Section II: New Developments in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with Cardiac PET

5.    Clinical Update: Indications, Protocols, Accuracy, Risk stratification

6.    Hybrid Imaging: Value of Calcium Scoring with case examples

7.    Quantitative myocardial blood flow – technical and quality control issues with case examples

8.    Quantitative myocardial blood flow – clinical importance with case examples

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              Section III: New Developments in Viability Assessment with Cardiac PET

10. Clinical update on role and value

Patient preparation for FDG viability: diabetic and non-diabetic

Interpretation of PET viability studies with examples

              Section IV:  Current Status of Assessment of          Cardiac Sarcoid with FDG Imaging

11. Clinical need: current assessment

Patient preparation

Supportive data

How to do: value of MRI?

Interpretation of cardiac sarcoid studies with case examples

     Assessment of therapies: timing, indications

               Reporting cardiac sarcoid studies         

              Section V: Infection and Vascular Inflammation

             Imaging

         10. Infection imaging: ICD, leads, endocarditis

              Section VI: New Tracers in Cardiovascular PET

         11. Flurpiridaz to be the primary topic