Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart

Download or read book Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart written by Marcelo F. Di Carli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the recent dramatic changes in the field ofcardiovascular imaging into the clinical setting to enable theclinician to best use the technology at hand. Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart opens with threechapters reviewing the general considerations and fundamentals ofimaging, followed by a series of chapters that address clinicalapplications of CT and CMR, including critical review of imaging approaches for diagnosis andprognosis of CAD evaluating the patient with new onset heart failure evaluating the patient before non-cardiac surgery evaluating the patient before interventionalelectrophysiology novel assessment of vascular flow and valvular disease relative merits of CTA and MRA for coronary artery imaging The final section deals with advanced applications of CT and MRimaging, considers technical advances and future prospects of highfield MRI, and concludes with a chapter on image-guided cardiacinterventions. The book includes a companion CD-ROM with a searchable databaseof figures from the book and 40 video clips fully referenced in thetext.