Vasken Dilsizian • Jagat Narula
Editors

2013

Fourth Edition

Over the past three decades, nuclear cardiology has evolved from a research tool into a wellestablished clinical discipline. Approximately nine million nuclear cardiology procedures are performed annually in the United States. The fi eld has excelled in the noninvasive evaluation and quanti fi cation of myocardial perfusion, function, metabolism, and innervation. Unlike anatomically oriented approaches to diagnostic medicine, the strengths of nuclear techniques are based on physiologic, biochemical, and molecular properties.