Volume 20, Number 3 / June, 2013

A selection of recent original research papers

Prem Soman MD, PhD
Nuclear cardiology in the literature
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Decrease in the frequency of stress-induced ischemia over the past two decades

George A. Beller MD
Editor's Page
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Regadenoson and exercise myocardial perfusion imaging: The courtship continues

Harkawal S. Hundal MD, MS, Gregory S. Thomas MD, MPH, FACC, FASNC
Editorial
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The motivation to reproject gated blood pool SPECT data as planar data

Kenneth J. Nichols PhD, Denny D. Watson PhD
Editorial
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PET/CT imaging of myocardial blood flow and arterial calcium: Putting the pieces together

Amit Pursnani MD, Ahmed Tawakol MD
Editorial
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CME Instructions: Comparison of hemodynamic and stress testing variables in patients undergoing regadenoson stress myocardial perfusion imaging to regadenoson with adjunctive low-level exercise myocardial perfusion imaging

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Comparison of hemodynamic and stress testing variables in patients undergoing regadenoson stress myocardial perfusion imaging to regadenoson with adjunctive low-level exercise myocardial perfusion imaging

Rafael Cabrera MD, Zehra Husain MD, Gurunanthan Palani MD, Aarthee S. Karthikeyan BS, Zain Choudhry BS, Sunita Dhanalakota MD, Ed. Peterson PhD, Karthik Ananthasubramaniam MD, FACC, FASE, FASNC, FRCP (Glas)
Original Article
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CME quiz

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Prognosis in patients with suspected or known ischemic heart disease and normal myocardial perfusion: Long-term outcome and temporal risk variations

Jane A. Simonsen MD, Oke Gerke MSc, PhD, Charlotte K. Rask MD, Mohammad Tamadoni MD, Anders Thomassen MD, Søren Hess MD, Allan Johansen MD, DMSc, Hans Mickley MD, DMSc, Lisette O. Jensen MD, PhD, DMSc, Jesper Hallas MD, DMSc, Werner Vach MSc, PhD, Poul F. Høilund-Carlsen MD, DMSc
Original Article
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Planar radionuclide angiography with a dedicated cardiac SPECT camera

R. Glenn Wells PhD, FCCPM, Brian Marvin BA, MRT(N), CNMT, Gil Kovalski PhD, Terrence D. Ruddy MD, FRCPC, FACC
Original Article
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Comparison of contemporaneous left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) obtained from planar gated cardiac blood pool scans (GCBPS) and Tl-201 gated myocardial perfusion scans (MPS) using a novel solid state dedicated cardiac camera

Kenneth S. K. Yap MBBS, Martin Cherk MBBS, Bruce Van Every BSc, Michael Bailey PhD, Michael J. Kelly MBBS, Victor Kalff MBBS
Original Article
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Coronary artery and thoracic aorta calcification is inversely related to coronary flow reserve as measured by 82Rb PET/CT in intermediate risk patients

Jongho Kim MD, PhD, Paco E. Bravo MD, Ali Gholamrezanezhad MD, Seil Sohn MD, Ash Rafique CNMT, Arlene Travis MS, Josef Machac MD
Original Article
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Arterial inflammation in bronchial asthma

Jayanthi Vijayakumar MD, Sharath Subramanian MD, Parmanand Singh MD, Erin Corsini BS, Sara Fontanez BA, Meredith Lawler BA, Rebecca Kaplan BA, Thomas J. Brady MD, Udo Hoffmann MD, MPH, Ahmed Tawakol MD
Original Article
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Simultaneous dual-isotope imaging based on an artificial neural network for evaluating myocardial perfusion and fatty acid metabolism

Jun Hashimoto MD, Koichi Ogawa PhD, Jingming Bai MD, Atsushi Kubo MD, Yutaka Imai MD
Original Article
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Impact of age on myocardial uptake of 123I-mIBG in older adult subjects without coronary heart disease

Arnold F. Jacobson MD, PhD, Ji Chen PhD, Liudmilla Verdes MD, Russell D. Folks BS, Daya N. Manatunga MS, Ernest V. Garcia PhD
Original Article
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Quantitative assessment of cardiac mechanical synchrony using equilibrium radionuclide angiography

Harmandeep Singh MD, Abhinav Singhal MD, Punit Sharma MD, Chetan D. Patel MD, Sandeep Seth DM, Arun Malhotra PhD
Original Article
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Role of cardiac computed tomography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in guiding management and treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation: State of the art review

Wael A. AlJaroudi MD, Walid S. Saliba MD, Oussama M. Wazni MD, Wael A. Jaber MD
Review Article
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Traditional and novel methods to assess and prevent chemotherapy-related cardiac dysfunction noninvasively

Ronald G. Schwartz MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, ABNM, FASNC, Diwakar Jain MD, FACC, FRCP, FASNC, Eugene Storozynsky MD, PhD, FACC
Review Article
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CT vs SPECT: CT is the first-line test for the diagnosis and prognosis of stable coronary artery disease

Ahmed Aljizeeri MBBS, Myra S. Cocker PhD, Benjamin J. W. Chow MD, FRCPC, FACC, FASNC, FSCCT
Controversies in Nuclear Cardiology
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SPECT vs CT: CT is not the first line test for the diagnosis and prognosis of stable coronary artery disease

Zachary J. Trzaska MD, Mylan C. Cohen MD, MPH, FASNC
Controversies in Nuclear Cardiology
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Cardiac sarcoid or arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: A role for positron emission tomography (PET)?

Wai Kah Choo MD, Alan R. Denison MD, David R. Miller MD, Owen J. Dempsey MD, Dana K. Dawson MD, Paul A. Broadhurst MD
Images That Teach
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Regadenoson induced acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and multivessel coronary thrombosis

David H. Hsi MD, FACC, Rajeev Marreddy DO, Mark Moshiyakhov MD, FACC, Ulrich Luft MD, FACC
Images that Teach
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Advocacy: Defining quality in the field : President’s Page

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology News Update
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ASNC 2013 Education Calendar

ASNC 2013 Education Calendar
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Erratum to: CME Instructions: Cardiac Autonomic Imaging with SPECT Tracers

Erratum
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