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What’s new in cardiac imaging?

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What’s New in Cardiac Imaging?

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 133))

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Abstract

Nuclear cardiology is frequently used to detect, localize, and size the extent of damage to myocardial tissue. In combination with exercise or pharmacologic stress, it can also detect residual myocardial ischemia and thereby determine prognosis. New radionuclides have emerged that allow greater accuracy and feasibility for distinguishing viable from irreversible injury in patients with myocardial infarction, particularly after reperfusion therapy. A variety of new imaging approaches have emerged that employ both gamma- and positronemitting tracers. This introductory chapter will briefly address the most important new cardiac imaging agents and the latest developments with the currently used tracers. Most of these attainments will be extensively discussed in the following chapters of this book.

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  1. Ernst E. Van Der Wall
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  1. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Leiden, Building 1, C5-P25 Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Ernst E. van der Wall

  2. Department of Cardiology, University of Vienna, Garnisongasse 13, A-1090, Vienna, Austria

    Heinz Sochor

  3. Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

    Alberto Righetti

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leiden, Building 1, C4-Q-80 Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Menco G. Niemeyer

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Van Der Wall, E.E. (1992). What’s new in cardiac imaging?. In: van der Wall, E.E., Sochor, H., Righetti, A., Niemeyer, M.G. (eds) What’s New in Cardiac Imaging?. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2456-0_1

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