Multimodal Cardiovascular Imaging: Principles and Clinical Applications with DVD

About the book
A complete guide to using multimodal imaging in cardiac practice

Interactive DVD includes moving images from the text

Multimodal Cardiovascular Imaging: Principles and Clinical Applications offers a unique 'matrix' approach to help you choose the most appropriate combination of imaging modalities for the management of patients with cardiovascular disease. The book discusses the various options available, how they work, the benefits and drawbacks of each, and what modalities will best work in conjunction with each other for a specific condition.

Featuring contributions from more than 60 international authors and enriched by 225 half-tone modality images and 130 full-color illustrations, Multimodal Cardiovascular Imaging: Principles and Clinical Applications is divided into three sections:

Section 1 contains chapters that focus on the use of ten specific clinically available diagnostic modalities and their broad application to clinical cardiology. Modalities discussed include:
Echocardiography
Phonocardiography
Myocardial Perfusion SPECT and PET
Coronary Angiography
Cardiac CT

Section 2 includes six chapters that present 'visions of the future' for combining multiple diagnostic modalities. They form the foundation for understanding the pathophysiologic basis of clinical cardiovascular conditions using prototypes, simulations, models, and tutorials.

Section 3 considers several cardiovascular conditions and how multimodal imaging can provide diagnostic and therapeutic decision support to optimize the clinical care for each of them. Some chapters in this section also include case reports of how clinicians/scientists are using multimodal imaging modalities to improve their clinical therapeutic decision support. Conditions include:

Congenital Heart Disease
Ischemic Heart Disease
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Aortic Disease
Atrial Fibrillation

Table of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributing Authors
Introduction, Olle Pahlm, Galen Wagner, Nina Hakacova, and Ljuba Bacharova
SECTION I: MULTIMODAL IMAGING EVOLUTION FROM INDIVIDUAL IMAGING MODALITIES
1. Echocardiography, Sebastian T. Palmeri, Liliana Cohen, and Daniel M. Shindler
2. Phonocardiography, Anna-Leona Noponen, Sakari Lukkarinen, and Raimo Sepponen
3. Myocardial perfusion Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography and Positron Emission Tomography, Marcus Carlson and Juhani Knuuti
4. Coronary Angiography, Kjell C. Nikus
5. Cardiac Computed Tomography, Monvadi B. Srichai and Jo'o A. C. Lima
6. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ischemic Heart Disease, Erik Hedstrom, Martin Ugander, and H'kan Arheden
7. Electrocardiography of Ischemic Heart Disease, Henrik Engblom and David G. Strauss
8. Electrophysiologic Mapping, Donald D. Hegland, Kevin P. Jackson, and James P. Daubert
9. Nuclear Cardiology Applied to Electrophysiology, Philippe Chevalier, Roland Itti, and Laurence V. Bontemps
10. Optical Mapping of Electrical Activity, Jiashin Wu, Hiroshi Morita, and Douglas P. Zipes
11. Dipolar Electrocardiotopography Imaging, Ljuba Bacharova and Anton Mateasik
SECTION II: FOUNDATIONS OF FUTURE METHODS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR MULTIMODAL IMAGING
12. Electrocardiographic Imaging of Epicardial Potentials, Fady Dawoud, John L. Sapp, John C. Clements, and B. Milan Horacek
13. Electromechanical Modeling Applied to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Jason Constantino, Viatcheslav Gurev, and Natalia A. Trayanova
14. Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology: Modeling Tissue and Organ, Martin J. Bishop, Hermenegild J. Arevalo, Patrick M. Boyle, Natalia A. Trayanova, Edward Vigmond, and Gernot Plank
15. Cardiac Simulation for Education: The Electrocardiogram According to ECGSIM, Adriaan van Oosterom and Thom F. Oostendorp
16. Graphical Analysis of Heart Rate Patterns to Assess Cardiac Autonomic Function, Phyllis K. Stein and Panagiotis Pantazopolous
17. Development of the Heart, with Particular Reference to the Cardiac Conduction Tissues, Robert H. Anderson, Aleksander Sizarov, and Antoon F. M. Moorman
SECTION III: CARDIOVASCULAR MULTIMODAL IMAGING IN KEY CLINICAL PROBLEMS
18. Congenital Heart Disease: Atrioventricular Septal Defect, Nina Hakacova
19. Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathies, Vincent L. Sorrell, Julia H. Indik, Nishant Kalra, and Frank I. Marcus
20. Ischemic Heart Disease, Brian B. Ghoshhajra, Ricardo C. Cury, and Richard D. White
21. Acute Myocardial Infarction, Joey F. A. Ubachs, Lia E. Bang, Jacob T. L'nborg, Philip Hasbak, Nina Hakacova, and Galen S. Wagner
22. Diseases of the Aorta, Igor Mamkin and John F. Heitner
23. Peripheral Vascular Disease, Rajan Hundal, Anthony DeFrance, and Peter S. Fail
24. Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Stephen F. Crawley and Andrew J. Peacock
25. Atrial Fibrillation, Rob MacLeod and J.J.E. Blauer
Index