Paolo Marzullo
Giuliano Mariani
Editors
2013
Despite the impressive development in our understanding of cardiovascular diseases, such diseases are still responsible for about one-third of all deaths in Western societies. As an appropriate treatment can only be offered when an accurate diagnosis has been established, tremendous efforts have been made over the past two decades to further improve noninvasive imaging. As a result, a great variety of techniques is now available in daily clinical routine. Not only do clinicians sometimes feel confused by this vast array of choices; it is challenging even for the cardiac imager to take full advantage of all cardiac imaging modalities, including the latest developments of image fusion.