TY  - CHAP
AU  - Branislav Baskot
AU  - Slobodan Obradovic
AU  - Saso Rafajlovski
AU  - Branko Gligic
AU  - Robert Jung
AU  - Vladimir Ivanovic
AU  - Miroslav Bikicki
AU  - Miodrag Pavlovic
ED  - Branislav Baskot
Y1  - 2011-09-15
PY  - 2011
T1  - Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Diagnosis of Culprit Lesion in Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
N2  - In the intervening 10 years tremendous advances in the field of cardiac computed tomography have occurred. We now can legitimately claim that computed tomography angiography (CTA) of the coronary arteries is available. In the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), many guidelines today consider CTA an alternative to stress testing. The use of CTA in primary prevention patients is more controversial in considering diagnostic test interpretation in populations with a low prevalence to disease. However the nuclear technique most frequently used by cardiologists is myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). The combination of a nuclear camera with CTA allows for the attainment of coronary anatomic, cardiac function and MPI from one piece of equipment. PET/SPECT cameras can now assess perfusion, function, and metabolism. Assessing cardiac viability is now fairly routine with these enhancements to cardiac imaging. This issue is full of important information that every cardiologist needs to now.
BT  - Coronary Angiography
SP  - Ch. 14
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/19049
DO  - 10.5772/19049
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-18
ER  -