RT Book, Section
A1 Travin, Mark I.
A2 Heller, Gary V.
A2 Hendel, Robert C.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145444648
T1 Radionuclide Imaging of Cardiac Innervation
T2 Nuclear Cardiology: Practical Applications, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644993
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145444648
RD 2023/11/29
AB It  is  recognized  by  many  in  the  field  of  nuclear  cardiology  that  in  order  to  thrive  and  advance,  the  discipline  needs  to  go  beyond  myocardial  perfusion  imaging  (MPI).  The  high  diagnostic  and  risk  stratification  utilities  of  radionuclide  single-photon  emission  computed  tomography  (SPECT)  and  positron  emission  tomography  (PET)  MPI  are  well  established,1–4  with  observational  studies5–7  strongly  suggesting  that  performing  and  properly  acting  upon  the  results  of  MPI  can  lead  to  improved  patient  outcome,  with  a  study  in  progress  designed  to  firmly  establish  this.8  Nevertheless,  there  is  an  increased  focus  on  developing  radionuclide  techniques  that  rely  on  a  unique  strength  of  the  modality,  that  is,  the  ability  to  image  the  underlying  molecular  processes  of  cardiac  disease.9  Among  such  nonperfusion  radionuclide  imaging  methods  of  current  interest  is  assessment  of  cardiac  autonomic  innervation.10,11