1st Edition
Hybrid Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine
PRINCIPLES, INSTRUMENTATION, TECHNIQUES, APPLICATIONS AND CASE ILLUSTRATIONS OF HYBRID IMAGING. Principles and Instrumentation of SPECT/CT. Cardiovascular PET/CT. Development of a Second Generation Whole Body Small Animal SPECT/MR Imaging System. Integrated PET and MRI of the Heart. CT-MRI. Hybrid X-Ray Luminescence and Optical Imaging. X-ray Fluoroscopy – Echocardiography. Combined Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging. Hybrid Intravascular Imaging in the Study of Atherosclerosis. MULTIMODALITY PROBES FOR HYBRID IMAGING. Preclinical Evaluation of Multimodality Probes. Multimodality Probes for Cardiovascular Imaging. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES AND CASE ILLUSTRATIONS OF HYBRID IMAGING. Recent Developments and Applications of Hybrid Imaging Techniques. Multimodality Image Fusion. Quantitative Cardiac SPECT/CT. Evaluations of Cardiovascular Diseases with Hybrid PET-CT Imaging. Quantitative Analyses and Case Studies of Hybrid PET-MRI Imaging. Merging Optical with Other Imaging Approaches. FUTURE CHALLENGES OF HYBRID IMAGING TECHNIQUES. Hybrid Instrumentation versus Image Fusion: Path to Multibrid Visualization. Concerns with Radiation Safety.
Biography
Yi-Hwa Liu, Albert J. Sinusas
