RT Book, Section A1 Case, James A. A2 Heller, Gary V. A2 Bateman, Timothy M. A2 Case, James A. A2 Arumugam, Parthiban SR Print(0) ID 1159185072 T1 Radiation Exposure with Cardiovascular PET: New Data T2 Cardiovascular PET: Current Concepts YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259860485 LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159185072 RD 2024/03/28 AB The use of radionuclides for the assessment of cardiovascular disease is well-established as a very low-risk, high-sensitivity, and specificity technology for establishing the presence of coronary disease, hibernating myocardium, and other cardiac and cardiovascular syndromes.1,2 Recently societies and professional medical organizations have expressed concern for radiation exposure to patients undergoing nuclear cardiology procedures.3 It is important in addressing concerns of radiation exposure that the quality of nuclear cardiology procedures not be sacrificed for the purposes of reducing the patient's radiation dose alone. Nuclear cardiology procedures can confer life-saving benefits; however, the application of sensible radiation reduction techniques can maintain and even improve the diagnostic quality of nuclear cardiology images while reducing the patient dose.3–6