What s New in Cardiovascular Imaging?

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.

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This book consists of a total of 32 chapters subdivided into seven Parts, being: 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. In the following chapters in such a Part, individual topics are described in further detail by leading authorities. In this way, the book should be of great interest to the more generalist' reader as well as to the morespecialist' reader. It has been quite obvious for a long time that cardiovascular imaging is a field in which quantitative analysis of the corresponding images is a must for clinical research studies. One such example is the quantitative coronary arteriography for the accurate assessment of vessel morphology and their changes over time in interventional cardiology. Particularly with the increasing use of three-dimensional (3D) data as well as 4D ( 3D plus time ), it has been quite clear that the amount of information is so large that the conventional visual interpretation is not suitable anymore, and otherwise would result in unacceptably high inter- and intra-observer variabilities and underutilization of the data. Fortunately, (semi)-automated analysis techniques preferably with automated edge detection approaches begin to appear, thereby providing a wealth of information with small systematic and random errors. Therefore, What's New in Cardiovascular Imaging? will assist the cardiologist, the radiologist, the nuclear medicine physician, the image processing specialist, the physicist, the basic scientist, and the fellow, who is in training for those specialties, in understanding the most recent achievements in cardiovascular imaging techniques and their impact on cardiovascular medicine.

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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.