Cardiac Imaging: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

(Volume I) Part I: Introduction. Goals of Cardiac Imaging. Principles of Myocardial Perfusion. Principles of Ventricular Function. Principles of Myocardial Metabolism. Principles of Valvar Function. Quantitative Methods in Cardiac Imaging: An Introduction to Digital Image Processing. Perceptual Aspects of Cardiac Imaging. A Clinician's Perspective: The Place of Imaging in Cardiac Diagnosis. Part II: Integrated Clinical Approach to Diagnosis Using Imaging Methods. Coronary Artery Disease. Valvular Heart Disease. Myocarditis and Cardiomyopathy. Congenital Heart Disease. Pericardial Disease. Cardiovascular Trauma. Diseases of the Great Vessels. Part III: Conventional Radiography and Angiography. Principles of Instrumentation for Radiography. The Chest Radiograph in the Adult Patient. Radiographic Contrast Agents. Principles and Practice of Contrast Ventriculography. Applications of Contrast Ventriculography. Role of Aortography in the Age of Imaging. Pulmonary Angiography. Principles and Practice of Coronary Angiography. Digital Angiography. Part IV: Echocardiography. Echocardiography: Physics and Instrumentation. Principles and Instrumentation for Doppler. Echocardiographic Assessment of Ventricular Systolic Function. Assessment of Systolic Function with Doppler Echocardiography. Doppler-Echocardiographic Evaluation of Diastolic Function. Valvular Heart Disease. Cardiomyopathies. Echocardiography in Pericardial Diseases. Two-Dimensional and Doppler Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease. Cardiac and Extracardiac Masses: Echocardiographic Evaluation. Myocardial Perfusion and Other Applications of Contrast Echocardiography. Stress Echocardiography. Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease: Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction. Transesophageal Echocardiography. Intraoperative Echocardiography. Intravascular Ultrasound. Ultrasonic Characterizationof Cardiovascular Tissue. (Volume II) Part V: Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxation. Principles and Instrumentation for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Contrast Agents for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Integrated Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Examination. Congenital Heart Disease Assessed with Magnetic Resonance Techniques. Imaging of the Valves and Great Vessels. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment of Ischemic Heart Disease. Cardiomyopathies, Cardiac Masses, And Pericardial Disease: Value of Magnetic Resonance in Diagnosis and Management. Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Heart. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications. Part VI: Fast Computed Tomography. Ultrafast Computed Tomography: Principles and Instrumentation. Evaluation of Cardiovascular Structure and Function with Electron-Beam Computed Tomography. Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease By Electron-Beam Computed Tomography. Measurement of Myocardial Perfusion Using Electron-Beam (Ultrafast) Computed Tomography. The Great Vessels: Imaging By Electron-Beam Computed Tomography. Cardiac Masses and Pericardial Disease: Imaging By Electron-Beam Computed Tomography. Ultrafast Computed Tomography Evaluation of Congenital Cardiovascular Disease in Children and Adults. Part VII: Radionuclide Imaging. Principles and Instrumentation. First-Pass Radionuclide Angiography. Equilibrium Radionuclide Angiography. Single-Photon Emitting Tracersfor Imaging Myocardial Perfusion and Cell Membrane Integrity. Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for the Detection and Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease. Imaging Acute Myocardial Necrosis. Metabolic Imaging with Single-Photon Emitting Tracers. Thrombosis Imaging with Indium-111-Labeled Platelets. Imaging the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System. Part VIII: Positron Emission Tomography. Principles of Positron Emission Tomography. Evaluation of Myocardial Blood Flow in Cardiac Disease. Evaluation of Myocardial Substrate Metabolism in Ischemic Heart Disease. Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Metabolism in the Cardiomyopathies. Positron Emission Tomography: Evaluation of Cardiac Receptors and Neuronal Function.