MR and CT: When to Use Each
Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SIC) is an increasingly recognized disease entity and is accepted as a unique form of reversible cardiomyopathy. Typi ...
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Impl ...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was first performed in 2002. With the Edwards-Sapien valve, more than 20,000 to 25,000 TAVI procedure ...
Radionuclide Imaging of Viable ...
Coronary artery disease is the major cause of heart failure in North America. Viability assessment is important as it aims to identify patients who ...
Reduction of Radiation Doses in ...
Noninvasive cardiac imaging has become a critical pathway for diagnosis and risk assessment in patients with known or suspected ischemic heart disea ...
Reduction of Radiation Doses in ...
Fluoroscopically guided minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic cardiovascular procedures constitute an essential component of the contemporar ...
Coronary MRA: Technical Advance ...
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) has become a routine clinical tool to evaluate arteries in the head and neck, abdomen, and extremities. However ...
Current and Future Status of Bl ...
Myocardial perfusion imaging is important for the management of patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. Nuclear cardiology is the ...
Myocardial Oxygenation Imaging: ...
Myocardial ischemia is associated with many cardiovascular diseases, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, hypertensive left ...
Recent Advances in Percutaneous ...
Percutaneous cardioscopy, using high-resolution fiberoptic imaging, enables direct visualization of the cardiac interior, thereby enabling macroscop ...
Pharmacologic Stress Using Sele ...
Adenosine and dipyridamole are nonselective A2A adenosine receptor agonists that provide reproducible coronary vasodilation thereby inducing flow di ...
CMR for Assessment of Diastolic ...
Prevalence of heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction amounts to 50% of all cases with heart failure. Diagnosis assessment r ...
Insights from CTA with Comparis ...
Noninvasive imaging of atherosclerosis by cardiac CT continues to rapidly evolve. A large collection of data has emerged on detection and quantifica ...
Improving Efficiency in the Nuc ...
Laboratory efficiency is an important benchmark to achieve whether imaging is hospital-based or in the private practice setting. The stressor and im ...
MR and CT: When to Use Each
Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) have evolved as quite useful techniques in chronic/acute coronary artery ...
Assessment of Plaque Compositio ...
Histopathological examination of culprit plaques in sudden coronary death has long suggested that accurate in vivo determination of plaque compositi ...
SPECT and Cardiac Resynchroniza ...
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has proven benefits in patients with refractory heart failure including improved symptoms, exercise capacity ...
Flow Imaging: Cardiac Applicati ...
Global and regional blood flow dynamics are of pivotal importance to cardiac function. Fluid mechanical forces can affect hemolysis and platelet agg ...
Intracoronary Optical Frequency ...
Percutaneous coronary intervention is the most common treatment of coronary artery disease with the majority of cases undergoing stent implantation. ...
F-18-FDG Imaging for Atheroscle ...
Atherosclerosis is a dynamic inflammatory disease of the arterial vessel wall which is still the “number one killer” in Western civilization. It tur ...
Modeling and Registration for E ...
Computer models of cardiac electrophysiology (EP) can help to better understand the mechanisms of arrhythmias and to guide interventions. However, m ...
Angioscopy and Unstable Coronar ...
Recent advances in intravascular imaging have significantly improved the ability to detect high-risk, or vulnerable, plaque in vivo. Coronary angios ...
Assessing Risk and Predicting O ...
Cardiovascular imaging has been able to demonstrate its importance identifying subjects at risk for future cardiac events. There is extensive eviden ...
Cardiovascular Applications of ...
Many applications of MRI are limited by an inherently low sensitivity. Previous attempts to overcome this insensitivity have focused on the use of M ...
Measuring Treatment Effects in ...
Cardiac MRI (CMR) offers the potential to assess valid and reliable parameters associated with cardiac diseases and the corresponding clinical progn ...
Optical Coherence Tomography an ...
The pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes has long been associated with atherosclerotic plaque rupture. Inflammation, thinning, and disruption ...