Novel techniques for imaging the heart : cardiac MR and CT / edited by Marcelo F. Di Carli, Raymond Y. Kwong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Carli, Marcelo F.

Kwong, Raymond Y.

American Heart Association.

Series:

AHA clinical series

The AHA clinical series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart--Magnetic resonance imaging.

Heart.

Heart--Tomography.

Heart Diseases--diagnosis.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging--methods.

Tomography, X-Ray Computed--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Heart Diseases--diagnosis.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging--methods.

Tomography, X-Ray Computed--methods.

Physical Description:

xvi, 360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 98 or higher, MAC OS 10.2 or higher; best viewed at 1024x768 screen resolution.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "searchable database of figures from the book and 40 video clips fully referenced in the text."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Principles of CT and MRI / Leon Axel and Danny Kim

Clinical considerations on the use of contrast agents for CT and MRI / Federico E. Mordini and Robert R. Edelman

Radiation dose considerations in cardiac CT / Mannudeep K. Kalra and Suhny Abbara

Safety considerations of current and evolving CMR techniques and hardware / Saman Nazarian, Henry R. Halperin, and David A. Bluemke

Evaluating the symptomatic patient with suspected CAD / Bernhard L. Gerber

Evaluation of atherosclerotic plaques with CT and MRI / Ilan Gottlieb and João A.C. Lima

Evaluating chest pain in patients with known CAD / Amit R. Patel and Christopher M. Kramer

Evaluating the patient with LV dysfunction for potential revascularization / Michael Salerno, Han W. Kim, Raymond J. Kim

Role of hybrid imaging: PET/CT and SPECT/CT / Marcelo F. Di Carli

Critical review of imaging approaches for the diagnosis and prognosis of CAD / Rory Hachamovitch and George A. Beller

Evaluating the patient with new onset heart failure / Joseph Selvanayagam and Theodoros D. Karamitsos

Evaluating the patient before noncardiac surgery / William O. Ntim, Rahul Aggarwal, and W. Gregory Hundley

Evaluating the patient before interventional electrophysiology / Riple J. Hansalia and Mario J. Garcia

Assessment of blood flow and heart valve disease by CMR / Philip J. Kilner

Relative merits of CTA and MRA for coronary artery imaging / Xin Liu, James C. Carr, and Debiao Li

Can atherosclerosis imaging improve patient management? / Allen J. Taylor and Robert O. Bonow

Atherosclerosis imaging: a biological and clinical perspective / Peter Libby

Stem cell imaging / Dara L. Kraitchman

Myocardial imaging in CAD: beyond ischemia and viability / Susan H. Kwon, Henry Wu, and Raymond Y. Kwong

Technical advances and the future prospects of high field strength MRI / Ahmed M. Gharib, Matthias Stuber, and Roderic I. Pettigrew

Technical advances in MDCT for imaging coronary artery stenoses and physiology / Humberto Wong, Elsie T. Nguyen, and Geoffrey D. Rubin

Imaging of myocardial mechanics / Hiroshi Ashikaga and Elliot R. McVeigh

Cardiovascular interventional MRI / Colin Berry and Robert J. Lederman.

Notes:

"American Heart Association."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405175333

1405175338

OCLC:

219995866

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