Cardiac CT, PET and MR [Hardcover]

Vasken Dilsizian (Editor), Gerald M. Pohost (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1405185538 | ISBN-13: 978-1405185530 | Publication Date: November 2, 2010 | Edition: 2

This careful revision keeps pace with developments in the field, with new chapters on PET Metabolism, CT and MRI in the Emergency Department, Image-Guided Electrophysiology Mapping and Ablation, and Identification of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque by Radionuclide and CT techniques, plus the introduction of new contributors Udo Hoffman and Stephan Achenbach.

Praised in its previous edition as a concise source of essential information, this new edition presents the most recent information in an accessible format and serves as an excellent reference source for all cardiologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians.

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"Praised in its previous edition as a concise source of essential information, this new edition presents the most recent information in an accessible format and serves as an excellent reference source for all cardiologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians.". (Medic Exchange, 20 January 2011)

From the Back Cover

The standard procedure for defining the anatomic extent and severity of coronary artery disease is catheter-based selective coronary angiography. While there are advantages to coronary angiography, it is invasive with some risk of complications and requires a brief period of hospitalization, making it relatively expensive. Cardiac CT, PET and MR is a complete technique-oriented reference, offering real alternatives to the “standard procedure”.

Non-invasive techniques of coronary artery lumen imaging, such as multislice computed tomography (MSCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) as well as complementary and at times more useful physiologic and/or metabolic imaging techniques provided by positron emission tomography (PET) are clearly detailed throughout this book. Cardiac CT, PET and MR therefore provides an excellent reference for all cardiologists, radiologists, and nuclear medicine physicians involved in the diagnosis and risk assessment of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.

With the advent of these non-invasive techniques, the future of invasive coronary angiography will be reserved primarily for therapeutic rather than diagnostic purposes. Accordingly, this book provides a unique and essential contribution to the developing field for both physicians and students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (November 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405185538
• ISBN-13: 978-1405185530
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1 x 10.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,277,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gerald M Pohost, MD, was born and grew up in Washington, DC. For 10 years he taught cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the Director, Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama in Birmingham for 14 years and the Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Southern California for 5 years. Dr. Pohost is internationally considered to be a pioneer in the fields of nuclear cardiology (for his work on the basic principals and clinical applications of Thallium-201 for imaging of the heart) and magnetic resonance imaging of the heart. He organized two major societies for magnetic resonance imaging: The Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 1982 (the other organizers were Paul C Lauterbur, PhD (nobel laureate); Tom Budinger, MD, PhD, University of California, Berkely; Alex Marguilis, MD, University of California, San Francisco, and Britton Chance, PhD, University of Pennsylvania) and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in 1997. He was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, on the Editorial Boards of numerous cardiology and imaging journals including Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He is the author of more than 300 manuscripts and 10 books mainly focused on cardiovascular imaging.