Informationen zum Autor Alessia Gimelli is the clinical lead of the Nuclear Cardiology Unit at Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy, from 2010. She is a cardiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. She has a Masters in Health Management, University of Pisa. Since 2013, she has been leading the quality assurance system for the nuclear medicine department of the FTGM. In October 2019 she won the ESC grant: Women Transforming Leadership Programme (WTLP) run by the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford (UK). She has deep experience of clinical research on cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular imaging and has contributed to several international high-profile projects. Dr Gimelli is the EACVI Treasures and member of the ESC Advocacy Committee (2020-2022) and was the EACVI Vice-President and the Chair of Nuclear Cardiology and CT section (2018-2020).Wael Jaber, Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic. Director of Cardiac Imaging CoreLab and Nuclear Cardiology. Trained in Multi-modality cardiac Imaging and published over 400 papers related to echocardiography, valvular heart disease, stress testing, nuclear perfusion and metabolic imaging as well as imaging in amyloid heart disease.Ronny Ralf Buechel, M.D. is the director of the cardiac imaging unit at the Department of Nuclear Imaging of the University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. He received his medical degree in 2006 and is board certified in nuclear medicine and cardiology. His clinical work and research extends to all fields of non-invasive and multimodality imaging, including SPECT, PET, CT, MRI and echocardiography. He is a professor at the University Zurich, Switzerland. Furthermore, he is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging and IMAGING, and, finally, Prof. Buechel is the chair of the EACVI Nuclear Certification and Accreditation Sub-Committee. Klappentext The EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology serves as a user-friendly clinical guide to the field of nuclear cardiology. Covering all aspects of this ever-expanding area, it is an indispensable tool in the diagnosis and management of patients. Zusammenfassung The EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology serves as a user-friendly clinical guide to the field of nuclear cardiology. Covering all aspects of this ever-expanding area, it is an indispensable tool in the diagnosis and management of patients. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Frank di Filippo: Radionuclide physics 2: Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Hein Verberne, and Ronny Buechel: Instrumentation 3: Hein Verberne, Fabien Hyafil, and Alessia Gimelli: Radiopharmaceuticals 4: Ronny Buechel: Radiation safety 5: Eliana Reyes: Cardiovascular stress 6: Eliana Reyes and Aldo Schenone: Methodology 7: Wael Jaber and Alessia Gimelli: Image interpretation 8: Wael Jaber and Ronny Buechel: Radionuclide imaging in clinical cardiology 9: Ronny Buechel: Radionuclide imaging in ischaemic heart disease 10: Andreas Giannopoulos: Radionuclide imaging in heart failure 11: Wael Jaber and Alessia Gimelli: Amyloidosis 12: Christine Jellis, Marc Dweck, Erika Hutt, and Paul Cremer: Radionuclide imaging in myocardial and other disorders 12.1: Christine Jellis and Marc Dweck: Primary myocardial disorders 12.2: Christine Jellis and Marc Dweck: Secondary myocardial disorders 12.3: Erika Hutt and Paul Cremer: Imaging of Infection and other forms of inflammation 13: Paul Cremer: Radionuclide imaging in congenital heart disease 14: Alessia Gimelli: Radionuclide imaging in heart and lung disease 15: Paul Cremer, Serge Harb, and Ronny Buechel: Important Finding on Tomographic Images and CT Images for Attenuation correction ...

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Alessia Gimelli is the clinical lead of the Nuclear Cardiology Unit at Fondazione Toscana G. Monasterio, Pisa, Italy, from 2010. She is a cardiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. She has a Masters in Health Management, University of Pisa. Since 2013, she has been leading the quality assurance system for the nuclear medicine department of the FTGM. In October 2019 she won the ESC grant: Women Transforming Leadership Programme (WTLP) run by the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford (UK). She has deep experience of clinical research on cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular imaging and has contributed to several international high-profile projects. Dr Gimelli is the EACVI Treasures and member of the ESC Advocacy Committee (2020-2022) and was the EACVI Vice-President and the Chair of Nuclear Cardiology and CT section (2018-2020). Wael Jaber, Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic. Director of Cardiac Imaging CoreLab and Nuclear Cardiology. Trained in Multi-modality cardiac Imaging and published over 400 papers related to echocardiography, valvular heart disease, stress testing, nuclear perfusion and metabolic imaging as well as imaging in amyloid heart disease. Ronny Ralf Buechel, M.D. is the director of the cardiac imaging unit at the Department of Nuclear Imaging of the University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. He received his medical degree in 2006 and is board certified in nuclear medicine and cardiology. His clinical work and research extends to all fields of non-invasive and multimodality imaging, including SPECT, PET, CT, MRI and echocardiography. He is a professor at the University Zurich, Switzerland. Furthermore, he is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging and IMAGING, and, finally, Prof. Buechel is the chair of the EACVI Nuclear Certification and Accreditation Sub-Committee.

Klappentext

The EACVI Handbook of Nuclear Cardiology serves as a user-friendly clinical guide to the field of nuclear cardiology. Covering all aspects of this ever-expanding area, it is an indispensable tool in the diagnosis and management of patients.

Inhalt

• 1: Frank di Filippo: Radionuclide physics

• 2: Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Hein Verberne, and Ronny Buechel: Instrumentation

• 3: Hein Verberne, Fabien Hyafil, and Alessia Gimelli: Radiopharmaceuticals

• 4: Ronny Buechel: Radiation safety

• 5: Eliana Reyes: Cardiovascular stress

• 6: Eliana Reyes and Aldo Schenone: Methodology

• 7: Wael Jaber and Alessia Gimelli: Image interpretation

• 8: Wael Jaber and Ronny Buechel: Radionuclide imaging in clinical cardiology

• 9: Ronny Buechel: Radionuclide imaging in ischaemic heart disease

• 10: Andreas Giannopoulos: Radionuclide imaging in heart failure

• 11: Wael Jaber and Alessia Gimelli: Amyloidosis

• 12: Christine Jellis, Marc Dweck, Erika Hutt, and Paul Cremer: Radionuclide imaging in myocardial and other disorders

• 12.1: Christine Jellis and Marc Dweck: Primary myocardial disorders

• 12.2: Christine Jellis and Marc Dweck: Secondary myocardial disorders

• 12.3: Erika Hutt and Paul Cremer: Imaging of Infection and other forms of inflammation

• 13: Paul Cremer: Radionuclide imaging in congenital heart disease

• 14: Alessia Gimelli: Radionuclide imaging in heart and lung disease

• 15: Paul Cremer, Serge Harb, and Ronny Buechel: Important Finding on Tomographic Images and CT Images for Attenuation correction