Over the past two decades there has been substantial growth in the applications of nuclear
cardiology to both clinical practice and research. The use of nuclear imaging techniques in …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or prevention of disease …

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to validate the accuracy of multidetector computed
tomography (MDCT) to measure differences in regional myocardial perfusion during …

Background—Some patients referred for pharmacological stress testing with transthoracic
echocardiography (TTE) are unable to undergo testing owing to poor acoustic windows. Fast …

The American CoIlege of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on
Assessment of Cardiovascular Procedures was formed to make recommendations regarding …

Our aim is to help put nuclear medicine at the forefront of quantitation on the path to the
realization of personalized medicine. We propose and evaluate (Part I) advanced image …

The relation between radioisotopic and echocardiographic markers of myocardial viability
and postrevascularization recovery of function is still to be defined. To this purpose, 14 …

Background Myocardial uptake of either 201Tl or 99mTc-sestamibi (sestamibi) is known to
plateau at high coronary flow rates. However, few direct comparisons have been made …

Patients with suspected chronic stable angina can be evaluated in three stages. In stage
one, the clinician uses information from the history, physical examination, laboratory tests for …

Aims To evaluate the accuracy of echocardiography in conjunction with quantitative high-
dose dipyridamole technetium-99m sestamibi tomography (SPECT) in detecting coronary …