Nuclear Cardiac Imaging is the definitive resource for nuclear cardiologists and nuclear clinicians on the technical, physiological, diagnostic, and prognostic considerations of cardiac diagnostic techniques performed with the aid of radiopharmaceuticals. New to the sixth edition are additional updated chapters and a Companion Atlas featuring case studies and multiple-choice quizzes that offer readers extra review.

Ami E. Iskandrian, MD, MACC, MASNC is Professor Emeritus, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.
Fadi G. Hage, MD, MASNC, FACC is Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Chief of Cardiology at the Birmingham VA Medical Center and the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

• Section I. Historical, Technical and Physiological Considerations


• 1. Nuclear Cardiology: History and Milestones- Barry Zaret


• 2. Radiation physics- James Galt


• 3. SPECT and PET Instrumentation- James Galt and Ernest Garcia


• 4. Kinetics of Conventional and New Cardiac Radiotracers- Ran Klein


• 5. Radionuclide Angiography: Planar and Tomographic- Steven Port


• 6. Gated SPECT MPI: Imaging Protocols and Acquisition; Processing and Quantitation- Milena Henzlova


• 7. Image Artifacts- William Van Decker


• Section II. Diagnosis and Risk Assessment


• 8. Regulation of Myocardial Blood Flow: Henry Gewirtz


• 9. How to measure Myocardial Blood Flow by PET?- Heinrich Schelbert


• 10. How to measure Myocardial Blood flow by SPECT?- Terrence Ruddy


• 11. Treadmill Exercise Testing- Gregory Thomas


• 12. Pharmacological Stress Testing- Effie Andrikopoulou, Ami Iskandrian, Fadi Hage


• 13. SPECT MPI in Diagnosis/Risk Assessment- Rami Doukky


• 14. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment in special groups (DM, Kidney transplant, Liver transplant, Asymptomatic, Obese)- Alberto Cuocolo


• 15. SPECT MPI for Risk Assessment before non-cardiac surgery- Lawrence Phillips


• 16. Evaluation of patients with Chest Pain in the Emergency Department- Jamieson Bourque


• 17. Role of PET (Perfusion and MBF) in Diagnosis and Risk Assessment - Rob Beanlands


• 18. Nuclear Imaging in women- Viviany Taqueti


• 19. Myocardial Viability Assessment by Nuclear Techniques- Vasken Dilsizian


• Section III. Role of Nuclear Imaging Beyond CAD


• 20. Imaging dyssynchrony- Alessia Gimelli


• 21. Imaging Myocardial Innervation by SPECT and PET- Mark Travin


• 22. Imaging sarcoid heart disease- Paco Bravo


• 23. Imaging Amyloid heart disease- Panithaya Chareonthaitawee


• 24. Imaging infections of valves and devices- Thomas Schindler


• 25. Imaging cardiac and vascular inflammation- Mehran Sadeghi and Sina Tavakoli


• 26. Imaging in Heart Failure including those with devices and post cardiac transplant- Prem Soman


• Section IV. Advances in Nuclear Cardiac Imaging


• 27. Evolving role of CT, cMR and echo in CAD- Jeroen BAx


• 28. Hybrid Imaging: SPECT/CTA, PET/MR and SPECT Calcium Score: when and why?- Philipp Kaufmann and Ronny Buechel


• 29. Artificial Intelligence and nuclear imaging- Piotr Slomka


• 30. Nuclear Imaging in patients with serious arrhythmias- Saurabh Malhotra


• 31. Nuclear Imaging in patients with HIV- Mouaz Al-Mallah


• 32. Nuclear Imaging in cardio-oncology- Raymond Russell and Matt Harinstein


• 33. Nuclear Imaging in patients with congenital heart diseases- Sharmila Dorbala and Sara Partington


• Section V. Challenges for Nuclear Cardiology


• 34. Physician Certification and Lab Accreditation- Robert Hendel


• 35. ACC/AHA/ESC Nuclear Guidelines and Appropriate Use Criteria- Timothy Christian


• 36. Nuclear Cardiology Report generation- Wael Aljaroudi


• 37. Radiation Considerations in imaging- Andrew J Einstein


• 38. Statistics in Nuclear imaging- Charity Morgan


• 39. Nuclear Imaging in Developing Countries- Amalia Peix and Diana Paez


• Section VI. Overview


• 40. Ask the Experts- Ami E. Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ernest V. Garcia


• Atlas Chapter 40: Self-Assessment