Cláudio Tinoco Mesquita and Maria Fernanda Rezende (eds.). Nuclear Cardiology: Basic and Advanced Concepts in Clinical Practice

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The field of nuclear cardiology has witnessed exponential growth in the last decade, from advancement in cutting edge technology, tracers, hybrid imaging, new clinical and research applications, key clinical trials, and artificial intelligence. Similarly, the application of nuclear cardiology has expanded with more diagnostic, preventive, prognostic, and guidance of clinical decision making. Not surprisingly, there have been countless studies, publications, editorials, ongoing research dispersed throughout the literature, journals, and meeting discussions, that spread through the field of nuclear imaging and transcend it to other non-invasive modalities. Indeed, nuclear cardiology has become a unique specialty, as it is now customary to integrate cardiac computed tomography (CCT) and magnetic resonance (CMR) as complementary modalities or hybrid imaging in daily clinical applications, research, publications, and in society meetings. …