Clinical Nuclear Cardiology: State of the Art and Future Directions, 3d ed.

RC683

2004-055150

0-323-02494-7

Clinical nuclear cardiology; state of the art and future directions, 3d ed.

Title main entry. Ed. by Barry L. Zaret and George A. Beller.

Mosby, [c]2005

749 p.

$159.00

The third edition of this text contains completely revised chapters as well as much new material (26 of the 43 chapters are newly written), reflecting rapid developments in the field. There are two new sections on new molecular approaches and on disease/gender specific issues. New coverage includes vascular imaging/detection; gene product imaging; imaging in women, for preoperative risk stratification, and in patients with a history of coronary revascularization; stress myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with diabetes mellitus; and mechanistic and methodologic considerations for the imaging of mental stress ischemia, among other topics. Two instrumentation chapters have been added on attenuation/scatter correction and dynamic cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using fast data acquisition systems. The chapters were written by specialists in the US, Europe, and Japan. Zaret teaches at the Yale U. School of Medicine; Beller is at the U. of Virginia in Charlottesville.