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 ...
Intracoronary Optical Frequency ...
Percutaneous coronary intervention is the most common treatment of coronary artery disease with the majority of cases undergoing stent implantation. ...
Noninvasive Positron Emission T ...
The importance of inflammation to atherothrombosis has led to the pursuit of noninvasive imaging methods to measure inflammation within the arterial ...
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 ...
SPECT and Cardiac Resynchroniza ...
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has proven benefits in patients with refractory heart failure including improved symptoms, exercise capacity ...
Assessment of Plaque Compositio ...
Histopathological examination of culprit plaques in sudden coronary death has long suggested that accurate in vivo determination of plaque compositi ...
Cellular and Functional Imaging ...
Heart transplantation is now an established treatment for patients suffering from end-stage heart diseases. With the advances in immunosuppressive t ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Molecular Imaging of Healing Af ...
The progression from acute myocardial infarction (MI) to heart failure continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Potential new thera ...
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 ...
Pharmacologic Stress Using Sele ...
Adenosine and dipyridamole are nonselective A2A adenosine receptor agonists that provide reproducible coronary vasodilation thereby inducing flow di ...
Recent Advances in Percutaneous ...
Percutaneous cardioscopy, using high-resolution fiberoptic imaging, enables direct visualization of the cardiac interior, thereby enabling macroscop ...
Molecular MRI of Thrombosis
This review focuses on recent approaches in using targeted MRI probes for noninvasive molecular imaging of thrombosis. Probe design strategies are d ...
Myocardial Oxygenation Imaging: ...
Myocardial ischemia is associated with many cardiovascular diseases, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, hypertensive left ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reduction of Radiation Doses in ...
Fluoroscopically guided minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic cardiovascular procedures constitute an essential component of the contemporar ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SIC) is an increasingly recognized disease entity and is accepted as a unique form of reversible cardiomyopathy. Typi ...
New Scores for the Assessment o ...
Nonsurgical management of patients with symptomatic mitral valve stenosis has been established as the therapeutic modality of choice for two decades ...
Chamber and Vessel Quantificati ...
The American Society of Echocardiography has recently published guidelines for chamber and vessel quantification during a pediatric echocardiogram. ...