Full Description
What's New in Cardiovascular Imaging is a bibliographical "image" of a Symposium held June 22-24, 1998 in Leiden, the Netherlands. At this Symposium all the major advances in car diovascular imaging in all the cardiovascular imaging modalities (X-ray, (intravascular) ultra sound, magnetic resonance, scintigraphy and CT) were addressed by the leading authorities in this field. Based on the presentations of the invited Faculty, this book consists of a compi lation of manuscripts related to most of the topics discussed at this particular meeting. We express our gratitude to all authors and coauthors for having made great efforts in preparing their superb up-to-date chapters under a great time pressure, so that this book was available at the time of the Symposium. The authors are all excellent investigators in one or more fields of cardiovascular imaging and they have stimulated progress in cardiovascular imaging with the aim to improve patient care and clinical research. This book consists of a total of 32 chapters subdivided into seven Parts. Each part describes a particular field in cardiovascular imaging. These Parts are: Coronary quantitation by QCA and intracoronary ultrasound (QCU), angiographic trials, progress in intravascular ultrasound, magnetic resonance (MR) coronary and vascular imaging, nuclear cardiovascular imaging, echocardiography, and cine and spiral CT coronary imaging. In general, each Part begins with a chapter that provides a broad overview of the advances in the field described in that particular Part, as well as a view towards the future.
Contents
One: Coronary quantitation by QCA and intracoronary ultrasound (QCU).- 1. Current and future developments in QCA and image fusion with IVUS.- 2. Issues in the performance of quantitative coronary angiography in clinical research trials.- 3. The cost-effectiveness of QCA in interventional cardiology.- 4. 3-D coronary angiography: improving visualization strategy for coronary interventions.- 5. Quantitative coronary ultrasound: state of the art.- Two: Angiographic trials.- 6. Genetic factors in the progression of atherosclerosis and response to cholesterol lowering drugs.- 7. Effect of lipid lowering therapy on myocardial perfusion; results from REGRESS and LAARS.- 8. How well does angiographic progression correlate with clinical events?.- 9. How should future angiographic trials be designed?.- Three: Progress in intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).- 10. Applications of intravascular ultrasound in cardiology.- 11. Cardiovascular flow measurements with IVUS.- 12. Optimal ultrasound guided balloon angioplasty.- 13. Prediction of restenosis by IVUS.- 14. Assessment of plaque composition using intravascular ultrasound.- Four: Magnetic resonance (MR) coronary and vascular imaging.- 15. Magnetic resonance in cardiology: which clinical questions can be answered now and in the near future?.- 16. Real-Time Cardiovascular MR Imaging.- 17. Left ventricular function under stress conditions by MRI.- 18. Quantitation of global and regional left ventricular function by MRI.- 19. Status of myocardial perfusion assessment by MRI.- Five: Nuclear cardiovascular imaging.- 20. Nuclear cardiology: which clinical questions can be answered now and in the future?.- 21. State-of-the-art in myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging.- 22. State of the art in the assessment of ventricular function by gated SPECT.- 23. Assessment of myocardial viability by FDG imaging with SPECT.- 24. What are the niches for SPECT versus PET versus MRI?.- Six: Echocardiography.- 25. Echocardiography: where are we now and where are we heading?.- 26. Intravenous echocontrast for assessment of left ventricular function and perfusion.- 27. State-of-the-Art. Stress echocardiography entering the next millennium.- 28. Overview of automatedquantitation techniques in 2D echocardiography.- 29. Doppler myocardial imaging.- 30. Carotid intima-media thickness measurement: predictor of future cardiovascular disease.- Seven: Cine and spiral CT coronary imaging.- 31. What is the current role of electron beam computed tomography in coronary imaging?.- 32. Magnetic resonance and electron beamtomography coronary angiography.- Color section.
