Hybrid Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine

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This comprehensive book focuses on multimodality imaging technology, including overviews of the instruments and methods followed by practical case studies that highlight use in the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Chapters cover PET-CT, SPECT-CT, SPECT-MRI, PET-MRI, PET-optical imaging, SPECT-optical imaging, photoacoustic Imaging, and hybrid intravascular imaging. It also addresses the important issues of multimodality imaging probes and image quantification. Readers from radiology and cardiology as well as medical imaging and biomedical engineering will learn essentials of the field. They will be shown how the field has advanced quantitative analysis of molecularly targeted imaging through improvements in the reliability and reproducibility of imaging data. Moreover, they will be presented with quantification algorithms and case illustrations, including coverage of such topics such as multimodality image fusion and kinetic modeling. Yi-Hwa Liu, PhD is Senior Research Scientist in Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Technical Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is also an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences at National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, and Professor (Adjunct) of Biomedical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. He is an elected senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a full member of Sigma Xi of The Scientific Research Society of North America. Albert J. Sinusas, M.D., FACC, FAHA is Professor of Medicine (Section of Cardiovascular Medicine) and Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, at Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of the Yale Translational Research Imaging Center (Y-TRIC), and Director of Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is a recipient of the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s Hermann Blumgart Award. Content: Principles and instrumentation of SPECT/CT / Glenn Wells -- Cardiovascular PET/CT / Etienne Croteau, Ran Klein, Jennifer M. Renaud, Manuja Premaratne, and Robert A. deKemp -- Development of a second generation whole body small animal SPECT/MR imaging system / Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Jingyan Xu, Andrew Rittenbach, Abdel-Monem Elk-Sharkawy, William A. Edelstein, James A. Huggs, and Kevin B. Parnham -- Integrated PET and MRI of the heart / Ciprian Catana and David E. Sosnovik -- CT-MRI / James Bennett and Ge Wang -- Hybrid X-ray luminescence and optical imaging / Raiyan T. Zaman, Michael V. McConnell, and Lei Xing -- X-ray fluoroscopy and echocardiography / R. James Housden and Kawal S. Rhode -- Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging / Doug Yeager, Andrei Karpiouk, Nicholas Dana, and Stanislav Emelianov -- Hybrid intravascular imaging in the study of atherosclerosis / Christos V. Bourantas, Javier Escaned, Carlos A. M. Campos, Hector Garcia-Garcia, and Patrick W. Serruys -- Preclinical evaluation of multimodality probes / Yingli Fu and Dara L. Kraitchman -- Multimodality probes for cardiovascular imaging / James T. Thackeray and Frank M. Bengel -- Recent developments and applications of hybrid imaging techniques / Piotr J. Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, and Guido Germano -- Multimodality image fusion / Marina Piccinelli, James R. Galt, and Ernest V. Garcia -- Quantitative cardiac SPECT/CT / Chi Liu, P. Hendrik Pretorius, and Grant T. Gullberg -- Evaluations of cardiovascular diseases with hybrid PET-CT imaging / Antti Saraste, Sami Kajander, and Juhani Knuuti -- Quantitative analyses and case studies of hybrid PET-MRI imaging / Leon J. Menezes, Eleanor C. Wicks, and Brian F. Hutton -- Merging optical with other imaging approaches / Doug Yeager, Nicholas Dana, and Stanislav Emelianov -- Hybrid instrumentation versus image fusion : path to multibrid visualization / Ernest V. Garcia and Marina Piccinelli -- Concerns with radiation safety / Mathew Mercuri and Andrew J. Einstein.