Leveraging latest computer science tools to advance nuclear cardiology

Piotr Slomka

A quick glance at selected topics in this issue

Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian

Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers

Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage

Nuclear Cardiology in the Literature: A selection of recent, original research papers

Saurabh Malhotra

What is this image? 2019: Image 3

What is this image? 2019: Image 2 result

Mohsen Qutbi

Letters to the editor

Barry L. Zaret, MD and H. William Strauss, MD

Frans J. Th. Wackers

Improving perfusion defect detection with respiratory motion correction in cardiac SPECT at standard and reduced doses

Chao Song, Yongyi Yang, Albert Juan Ramon, Miles N. Wernick, P. Hendrik Pretorius, Karen L. Johnson, Piotr J. Slomka, Michael A. King

Left ventricular ejection fraction determined with the simulation of a very low-dose CZT-SPECT protocol and an additional count-calibration on planar radionuclide angiographic data

Hubert Tissot, Véronique Roch, Olivier Morel, Nicolas Veran, Mathieu Perrin, Marine Claudin, Antoine Verger, Gilles Karcher, Pierre-Yves Marie, Laetitia Imbert

Applying a correction factor to gated blood pool SPECT left ejection fraction value: Can this approach be used to get around a longstanding hurdle?

Sylvain Prévost, Etienne Rousseau

Proposed volume-based methods for correcting the shift in left ventricular ejection fraction from blood-pool gated SPECT

Pierre-Yves Marie, Laetitia Imbert

Reliability of the 123I-mIBG heart/mediastinum ratio: Results of a multicenter test–retest reproducibility study

Timothy M. Bateman, Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, Daniel S. Berman, Myron Gerson, Robert Gropler, Milena Henzlova, Fernando Mendoza, Michael Miyamoto, Mahesh Shah, Frederick Weiland

123I-mIBG: Simplicity and reproducibility

Kevin Curl, Christopher L. Hansen

Prolonged dipyridamole administration reduces myocardial perfusion defects in experimental chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy

Denise Mayumi Tanaka, Luciano Fonseca Lemos de Oliveira, José Antônio Marin-Neto, Minna Moreira Dias Romano, Eduardo Elias Vieira de Carvalho, Antonio Carlos Leite de Barros Filho, Fernando Fonseca França Ribeiro, Jorge Mejia Cabeza, Carla Duque Lopes, Camila Godoy Fabricio, Norival Kesper, Henrique Turin Moreira, Lauro Wichert-Ana, André Schmidt, Maria de Lourdes Higuchi, Edécio Cunha-Neto, Marcus Vinícius Simões

The long way to defeating Chagas cardiomyopathy

Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo

Improved diagnostic accuracy of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography with CT attenuation correction

Jei-Yie Huang, Ruoh-Fang Yen, Wen-Chung Lee, Chun-Kai Huang, Pei-Ying Hsu, Mei-Fang Cheng, Ching-Chu Lu, Yen-Hung Lin, Kuo-Liong Chien, Yen-Wen Wu

CT attenuation correction for thallium SPECT MPI and other benefits of multimodality imaging

Randall C. Thompson

CME INSTRUCTIONS: Role of Multimodality Imaging in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

The role of multimodality imaging in takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Osamu Manabe, Masanao Naya, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Kazuhiro Koyanagawa, Nagara Tamaki

Comorbid conditions in individuals assessed by SPECT: Study of a reference cardiology center in Mexico City

Neftali Eduardo Antonio-Villa, Nilda Espínola-Zavaleta, Isabel Carvajal-Juárez, Alondra Noe Flores-Garcia, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas

Mexico-city does not look like Beverly-Hills: A multimodality and cardiac imager perspective!

João V. Vitola, Rodrigo Cerci

Non-cardiac uptake of technetium-99m pyrophosphate in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis

Brett W. Sperry, Matthew H. Gonzalez, Richard Brunken, Manuel D. Cerqueira, Mazen Hanna, Wael A. Jaber

Analogies and disparities among scintigraphic bone tracers in the diagnosis of cardiac and non-cardiac ATTR amyloidosis

Claudio Rapezzi, Christian Gagliardi, Agnese Milandri

Utilization of stress testing for low-risk patients with chest discomfort in the emergency department

Sheela Krishnan, Rachael Venn, Daniel M. Blumenthal, Vijeta Bhambhani, Henry Gewirtz, Rory B. Weiner, John T. Nagurney, Jason H. Wasfy

Provocative testing for low-risk chest pain patients, must we continue?

James Booth, J. Jeremy Thomas

Left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony assessment in long-standing type II diabetes mellitus patients with normal gated SPECT-MPI

Dharmender Malik, Bhagwant Mittal, Ashwani Sood, Madan Parmar, Gurvinder Kaur, Ajay Bahl

Analysis of ventricular synchrony: A complex puzzle

Guillermo Romero-Farina, Santiago Aguadé-Bruix

Selection of abstracts from the scientific sessions of The Society Of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging annual meeting Anaheim CA

Jacek Kwiecinski, Martin Lyngby Lassen, Joanna Liang, Piotr J. Slomka

Stronger correlation with myocardial ischemia of high-sensitivity troponin T than other biomarkers

Theodore Pipikos, Alkistis Kapelouzou, Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, Yannis Fostinis, Marina Pipikou, Athanassios Theodorakos, Antonis N. Pavlidis, Christos Kontogiannis, Dennis V. Cokkinos, Maria Koutelou

The never-ending story of cardiac biomarkers: A further step toward a very early detection of ischemic patients?

Claudio Marcassa

Prevalence and variability in reporting of clinically actionable incidental findings on attenuation-correction CT scans in a veteran population

B. Julie He, Brian J. Malm, Michelle Carino, Mehran M. Sadeghi

Incidental findings on hybrid SPECT-CT and PET-CT scanners: Is it time for new training and reporting guidelines?

Steven Port

Imaging of atherosclerosis, targeting LFA-1 on inflammatory cells with 111In-DANBIRT

E. J. Meester, B. J. Krenning, R. H. de Blois, J. P. Norenberg, M. de Jong, M. R. Bernsen, K. Van der Heiden

Imaging inflammation in atherosclerotic plaques: Just make it easy!

Fabien Hyafil, Jonathan Vigne

How variable are the volumetric measurements from gated perfusion SPECT when a one-day stress-rest protocol is used?

C. Fielder Camm, Alexander Emery, Elizabeth Rose-Innes, Sergei Pavlitchouk, Nikant Sabharwal, Andrew D. Kelion

Do we really need to look at volumetric measurements with 99mTc single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging?

Dominik C. Benz, Andreas A. Giannopoulos

Relationship of myocardial hibernation, scar, and angiographic collateral flow in ischemic cardiomyopathy with coronary chronic total occlusion

Li Wang, Min-Jie Lu, Lei Feng, Juan Wang, Wei Fang, Zuo-Xiang He, Ke-Fei Dou, Shi-Hua Zhao, Min-Fu Yang

Chronic total occlusion without collateral blood flow does not exclude myocardial viability and subsequent recovery after revascularization

Jeroen J. Bax, Victoria Delgado

Gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with cadmium-zinc-telluride detectors allows real-time assessment of dobutamine-stress-induced wall motion abnormalities

Rene Nkoulou, Mathias Wolfrum, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Michael Fiechter, Ronny R. Buechel, Oliver Gaemperli, Philipp A. Kaufmann

Real-time gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with CZT detectors: A promising tool for monitoring left ventricular function

Roberta Assante, Alberto Cuocolo

Prediction of cardiac death after adenosine myocardial perfusion SPECT based on machine learning

David Haro Alonso, Miles N. Wernick, Yongyi Yang, Guido Germano, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr Slomka

Machine learning for nuclear cardiology: The way forward

Sirish Shrestha, Partho P. Sengupta

Non-invasive assessment of endarteritis in Marfan syndrome with aortic dissection after surgical treatment

Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas, Aloha Meave-Gonzalez, Susana Ortega-Silva, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta

Role of PET/CT in multimodality imaging in differentiating cardiac sarcoidosis from arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia

Cheng Yee Goh, Adam Gay, Michael S. Hofman, Chiew Wong, James Westcott, Nathan Better

Giant primary pericardial synovial sarcoma in an adolescent with cardiac tamponade: Contrast-enhanced CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT findings

Entao Liu, Zerui Chen, Zhouyang Lian, Chao Liu, Qiu Xie, Siyun Wang, Shuxia Wang

FDG-PET/CT of invasive thymoma extending into the superior vena cava and right atrium

Si-yun Wang, Liang Xie, En-tao Liu, Ji-qin Liao, Gang Chen, Shu-Xia Wang

Non-diagnostic 18F-FDG PET myocardial viability studies in type-2 diabetic patients

Roberto C. Valentin, Ayman Farag, Fadi G. Hage, Pradeep Bhambhvani

Systolic wall thickening and prone acquisition as tools to reduce false positives in the interpretation of the SPECT myocardial perfusion study

Alondra Flores-Garcia, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Carlos Guízar-Sánchez, Daniela Hernández-Oliver, Alan Castro-Blanco, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas

FMTVDM-TFM©℗: True quantification requires standardization of the tool being used to measure, with a known, unchanging standard to produce accurate, consistent and reproducible quantified measurements

Richard M. Fleming, Matthew R. Fleming, Andrew McKusick, Tapan Chaudhuri

Correction to: FMTVDM-TFM©℗: True quantification requires standardization of the tool being used to measure, with a known, unchanging standard to produce accurate, consistent and reproducible quantified measurements

Richard M. Fleming, Matthew R. Fleming, Andrew McKusick, Tapan Chaudhuri

Older patients with cardiovascular disease: A new frontier for nuclear cardiology?

Rob S. B. Beanlands