Cardiac PET and PET/CT Imaging

Part I. Instrumentation and Principles of Imaging

1. Instrumentation and Principles of Imaging: PET
Frank P. DiFilippo

2. Instrumentation and Principles of CT
Douglas P. Boyd

3. Integrated PET/CT
David W. Townsend, Myrwood C. Besozzi, Jonathan P. J. Carney

4. Principles of Quantitation in Cardiac PET
Stephen C. Moore, Georges El Fakhri

Part II. General Considerations for Performing PET and Integrated PET/CT

5. Radiopharmaceuticals for Clinical Cardiac PET Imaging
Josef Machac

6. Iodinated Contrast Agents for Cardiac CT
M. Raquel Oliva, Koenraad J. Mortele

7. CT Anatomy of the Heart
Lawrence M. Boxt, Martin J. Lipton

8. Patient and Occupational Dosimetry
Frank P. Castronovo, A. Robert Schleipman

Part III. Diagnostic Approaches to Patients with CAD

9. Patient Preparation and Stress Protocols for Cardiac PET and Integrated PET/CT Imaging
Sharon E. Crugnale, Sharmila Dorbala

10. PET and Integrated PET/CT Myocardial Imaging Protocols and Quality Assurance
Sharmila Dorbala, Marcelo F. Carli

11. Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with PET
Marcelo F. Carli, Sharmila Dorbala

12. Quantifying Myocardial Perfusion for the Assessment of Preclinical CAD
Heinrich R. Schelbert

13. Assessing Atherosclerotic Burden with CT
Javier Sanz, Santo Dellegrottaglie, Valentin Fuster

14. CT Coronary Angiography
John A. Rumberger

15. Relative Merits of Coronary CTA and Coronary MRI
Martin J. Lipton, Warren J. Manning

16. Integrated Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Coronary Angiography with PET/CT
Marcelo F. Carli

Part IV. Diagnostic Approaches to the Patient with Heart Failure

17. PET Measurement of Myocardial Metabolism
Robert J. Gropler

18. Myocardial Viability Assessment with PET and PET/CT
Marcelo F. Carli

19. Myocardial Perfusion, Viability, and Functional Assessment with Contrast CT
Martin J. Lipton

20. Assessment of Myocardial Viability by Cardiac MRI
Raymond Y. Kwong

21. Comparison of Imaging Modalities in the Assessment of Myocardial Viability
James E. Udelson, John Finley, Vasken Dilsizian

22. Role of Imaging Cardiac Innervation and Receptors in Heart Failure
Takahiro Higuchi, Markus Schwaiger, Frank M. Bengel

Part V. Emerging Role of Molecular Imaging

23. Evaluating High-Risk, Vulnerable Plaques with Integrated PET/CT
Udo Hoffmann, Javed Butler, Ahmed A. Tawakol

24. Evaluating Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque with MRI
Fabien Hyafil, Zahi A. Fayad

25. Evaluating Gene and Cell Therapy
Ahmad Y. Sheikh, Joseph C. Wu

26. Imaging of Angiogenesis
Lawrence W. Dobrucki, Albert J. Sinusas

Part VI. Case Illustrations of Cardiac PET and Integrated PET/CT

27. Normal Vasodilator Stress PET/CT Study

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