Digital Cardiac Imaging

1. Myocardial imaging: The promise and challenge of digital image processing.- One: Basic Considerations.- 2. Digital image processing.- 3. Basic physical principles of cardiac imaging systems.- 4. Computer hardware considerations in digital imaging.- 5. Physiologic concepts in cardiac imaging: Flow-function relations in acutely ischemic myocardium.- 6. A geometric foundation for the study of left ventricular motion: Some tensor considerations.- Two: Clinical Applications.- 7. The analysis of left ventricular function with digital subtraction angiography.- 8. Digital radiographic assessment of coronary flow reserve.- 9. Quantitative coronary arteriography.- 10. Clinical application of cardiac CT.- 11. Digital two-dimensional echocardiography.- 12. Doppler echocardiography: Basic principles and clinical applications.- 13. Radionuclide imaging of the heart.- 14. Positron emission computed tomography.- 15. Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart.- 16. Future directions and integrative approaches in digital cardiac imaging.- Index of subjects.

`Edited by a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Science, this book has a multidisciplinary approach that is aimed to be of interest to both doctors and scientists alike. It should appeal to both cardiologists and scientists who wish to update themselves on the latest advances in the many cardiac imaging techniques now available.'
Mark J. Monaghan