Issue 4/2017
Content (58 Articles)
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
Nuclear cardiology in the literature: A selection of recent, original research papers
Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers
Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi
What is This Image? 2017: Image 2
Noninvasive PET quantitative myocardial blood flow with regadenoson for assessing cardiac allograft vasculopathy in orthotopic heart transplantation patients
Miguel Hernandez Pampaloni, Uttam M. Shrestha, Maria Sciammarella, Youngho Seo, Grant T. Gullberg, Elias H. Botvinick
Regadenoson-induced hyperemia for absolute myocardial blood flow quantitation by 13N-ammonia PET and detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy
René R. Sevag Packard, Jamshid Maddahi
Validation of early image acquisitions following Tc-99 m sestamibi injection using a semiconductors camera of cadmium-zinc-telluride
Celine Meyer, Pierre Weinmann
Detection of ischemia with early myocardial perfusion imaging: You see more if you watch before
Riccardo Liga, Alessia Gimelli
The high matrix acquisition technique for imaging of atherosclerotic plaque inflammation in fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography with time-of-flight: Phantom study
Masaya Suda, Tomonari Kiriyama, Keiichi Ishihara, Masahisa Onoguchi, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Minoru Sakurai, Takayuki Shibutani, Shin-ichiro Kumita
The dream of imaging coronary artery inflammation with FDG PET/CT imaging
R. Glenn Wells, Terrence D. Ruddy
Catheter-based functional metrics of the coronary circulation
Panagiotis Xaplanteris, Emanuele Barbato, Bernard De Bruyne
Review of cardiovascular imaging in the journal of nuclear cardiology in 2016: Part 2 of 2—myocardial perfusion imaging
Fadi G. Hage, Wael A. AlJaroudi
An assessment of the safety, hemodynamic response, and diagnostic accuracy of commonly used vasodilator stressors in patients with severe aortic stenosis
Nasir Hussain, Waseem Chaudhry, Alan W. Ahlberg, Richard S. Amara, Ahmed Elfar, Matthew W. Parker, John A. Savino III, Ruwanthi Titano, Milena J. Henzlova, William L. Duvall
The use of vasodilator myocardial perfusion imaging in severe aortic stenosis: Is it time for a new prospective study?
Ioannis Parastatidis, Stamatios Lerakis
Impact of respiratory motion correction on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging using a mechanically moving phantom assembly with variable cardiac defects
Irene Polycarpou, Isabelle Chrysanthou-Baustert, Ourania Demetriadou, Yiannis Parpottas, Christoforos Panagidis, Paul K. Marsden, Lefteris Livieratos
Sex affects myocardial blood flow and fatty acid substrate metabolism in humans with nonischemic heart failure
Ana Kadkhodayan, C. Huie Lin, Andrew R. Coggan, Zulfia Kisrieva-Ware, Kenneth B. Schechtman, Eric Novak, Susan M. Joseph, Víctor G. Dávila-Román, Robert J. Gropler, Carmen Dence, Linda R. Peterson
Sex difference in cardiac metabolism in nonischemic heart failure: Insight for prognostic value of altered cardiac metabolism
Hyung-Jun Im, Gi Jeong Cheon
Multi-modality molecular imaging of aortic aneurysms
Brian J. Malm, Mehran M. Sadeghi
Technical consideration for dual ECG/respiratory-gated cardiac PET imaging
Mark C. Hyun, Jim Gerlach, Mathieu Rubeaux, Piotr J. Slomka
Relation between quantitative coronary CTA and myocardial ischemia by adenosine stress myocardial CT perfusion
Alexander R. van Rosendael, Lucia J. Kroft, Alexander Broersen, Jouke Dijkstra, Inge J. van den Hoogen, Erik W. van Zwet, Jeroen J. Bax, Michiel A. de Graaf, Arthur J. Scholte
A multifunctional CT technology: Reality or illusion for patient risk assessment?
Tomoaki Nakata
Comparative effectiveness of coronary CT angiography vs stress cardiac imaging in patients following hospital admission for chest pain work-up: The Prospective First Evaluation in Chest Pain (PERFECT) Trial
Seth Uretsky, Edgar Argulian, Azhar Supariwala, Shiv K. Agarwal, Georges El-Hayek, Patricia Chavez, Hira Awan, Ashadevi Jagarlamudi, Siva P. Puppala, Randy Cohen, Alan Rozanski
Coronary computed tomography angiography: How should we act on what we find?
Márcio Sommer Bittencourt, Ron Blankstein
Impact of cardiac reverse remodeling after cardiac resynchronization therapy assessed by myocardial perfusion imaging on ventricular arrhythmia
Kuo-Feng Chiang, Guang-Uei Hung, Shih-Chung Tsai, Chien-Ming Cheng, Yu-Cheng Chang, Wan-Yu Lin, Yu-Cheng Hsieh, Tsu-Juey Wu, Shih-Ann Chen, Jin-Long Huang, Ying-Chieh Liao, Ji Chen
Myocardial substrate after cardiac resynchronization therapy and the risk of ventricular arrhythmias
Saurabh Malhotra
Impact of imaging protocol on left ventricular ejection fraction using gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging
C. Marcassa, R. Giubbini, W. Acampa, C. Cittanti, O. Djepaxhija, A. Gimelli, A. Kokomani, G. Medolago, E. Milan, R. Sciagrà
Type 2 diabetes mellitus correlates with systolic function during myocardial stress perfusion scanning with Nitrogen-13 ammonia PET
Luis Eduardo Juárez-Orozco, Friso M. van der Zant, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Sergiy V. Lazarenko, Erick Alexanderson, Rene A. Tio, Remco J. J. Knol
Fast myocardial perfusion imaging with 99mTc in challenging patients using conventional SPECT cameras
Athanasios Katsikis, Athanasios Theodorakos, Anna Kouzoumi, Elpida Kitziri, Evangelos Georgiou, Maria Koutelou
Avoiding full corrections in dynamic SPECT images impacts the performance of SPECT myocardial blood flow quantitation
Lei Wang, Dayong Wu, Yong Yang, Ing-Jou Chen, Chih-Yuan Lin, Bailing Hsu, Wei Fang, Yi-Da Tang
What are the necessary corrections for dynamic cardiac SPECT?
Brian F. Hutton, Simona Ben-Haim
Frequent MUGA testing in a myeloma patient: A case-based ethics discussion
Sabha Bhatti, Robert C. Hendel, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Ronald G. Schwartz, Gilbert Raff, Andrew J. Einstein
The ethics of radiation exposure in cancer-treated patients
Carol Chen-Scarabelli, Tiziano M. Scarabelli
Optimization of a simultaneous dual-isotope 201Tl/123I-MIBG myocardial SPECT imaging protocol with a CZT camera for trigger zone assessment after myocardial infarction for routine clinical settings: Are delayed acquisition and scatter correction necessary?
Emmanuel D’estanque, Christophe Hedon, Benoît Lattuca, Aurélie Bourdon, Meriem Benkiran, Aurélie Verd, François Roubille, Denis Mariano-Goulart
Dual isotope and multidetector camera: The best choices for a specific end-point
Roberta Assante, Wanda Acampa
Imaging the heart’s brain: Simultaneous innervation/perfusion analysis in the era of new CZT cameras
Riccardo Liga, Alessia Gimelli
Reducing the small-heart effect in pediatric gated myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography
Hiroto Yoneyama, Kenichi Nakajima, Koichi Okuda, Shinro Matsuo, Masahisa Onoguchi, Seigo Kinuya, Lars Edenbrandt
Ready, shoot, aim? Summary justice for small hearts in nuclear cardiology
Guido Germano, Paul B. Kavanagh
New method for accurate estimations of LV function for small hearts
Keiichiro Magota, Nagara Tamaki
Limitations of Rb-82 weight-adjusted dosing accuracy at low doses
Jonathan B. Moody, Kerri M. Hiller, Benjamin C. Lee, James R. Corbett, Edward P. Ficaro, Venkatesh L. Murthy
Myocardial perfusion imaging in women for the evaluation of stable ischemic heart disease—state-of-the-evidence and clinical recommendations
Viviany R. Taqueti, Sharmila Dorbala, David Wolinsky, Brian Abbott, Gary V. Heller, Timothy M. Bateman, Jennifer H. Mieres, Lawrence M. Phillips, Nanette K. Wenger, Leslee J. Shaw
Status of cardiovascular PET radiation exposure and strategies for reduction: An Information Statement from the Cardiovascular PET Task Force
James A. Case, Robert A. deKemp, Piotr J. Slomka, Mark F. Smith, Gary V. Heller, Manuel D. Cerqueira
Cardiac metastasis from lung cancer mimicking as perfusion defect on N-13 ammonia and FDG myocardial viability PET/CT scan
Dharmender Malik, Rajender Basher, Shelvin Vadi, Bhagwant Mittal, Anish Bhattacharya
Incidental detection of abnormal 99mTc-sestamibi uptake in the sternum and ribcage from multiple myeloma by SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging
Ayman A. Farag, Hiren Patel, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage
False-positive stress PET–CT imaging in a patient with interstitial injection
Luciana Erthal, Fernanda Erthal, Rob S. B. Beanlands, Terrence D. Ruddy, Robert A. deKemp, Girish Dwivedi
Applicability of data-driven respiratory motion correction to CZT SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in the clinical setting: The birth of an old wish
Doumit Daou, Remy Sabbah, Carlos Coaguila, Hatem Boulahdour
Erratum to: Effect of Bayesian-penalized likelihood reconstruction on [13N]-NH3 rest perfusion quantification
Jim O’ Doherty, Daniel R. McGowan, Carla Abreu, Sally Barrington
Fractional flow reserve as an indicator of coronary circulation with special reference to kidney function
Tomoyuki Kawada