TY - CHAP AU - Yilmaz. N AU - Yegin A AU - Aykal G. ED - Branislav Baskot Y1 - 2011-09-15 PY - 2011 T1 - New Noninvasive Modalities in Coronary Angiography - Diagnostic Values of New Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Disease 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. 15 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/18213 DO - 10.5772/18213 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -