Concise yet comprehensive, the Biomedical Technology and Devices Handbook illuminates
the equipment, devices, and techniques used in modern medicine to diagnose, treat, and …

The management of patients with coronary artery disease, both in the post-infarction setting,
and in patients with chronic advanced left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, is complicated by the …

Beyond myocardial blood flow and contractile function, the clinical practice of nuclear
cardiology is on the verge of expanding its procedures to include the characterization of …

Patient monitoring is a major indication for cardiac nuclear medicine procedures. Stress
myocardial perfusion scintigraphy was initially used for diagnosis, but monitoring patients …

Background This study compared technetium 99m sestamibi/fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose
dual-isotope simultaneous acquisition (DISA) with stress-reinjection thallium 201 single …

Identification of myocardial viability in hypokinetic segments is important in patients with
ischemic cardiomyopathy because systolic dysfunction improves with revascularization …

Over the past 25 y, the ability of revascularization to reverse chronic ischemic left ventricular
(LV) dysfunction has become clear (1), although not every patient benefits from …

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has become established as a diagnostic tool
in cardiovascular imaging. The most important clinical applications in cardiology are the …

This study assessed a dual-head coincidence gamma camera (hybrid PET) equipped with
single-photon transmission for myocardial fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) imaging by …

El daño miocárdico por reperfusión se define como el efecto adverso producido al
restablecerse la circulación y propiciar la llegada de sangre y nutrientes a las células …