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PET and SPECT in Other Cardiac Diseases Frank M. Bengel Markus Schwaiger In several noncoronary cardiac diseases, nuclear imaging has been used for the noninvasive assessment of myocardial metabolism, microvascular…

Coronary Artery Disease: Tissue Viability and Perfusion Markus Schwaiger Stephan G. Nekolla Diagnosis of reversible left ventricular dysfunction in patients with heart failure remains an important clinical challenge. Single-photon emission…

Coronary Artery Disease: Perfusion with PET and SPECT Philipp A. Kaufmann This chapter presents an overview of the impact of positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)…

The Normal Heart Scan: PET and SPECT Philipp A. Kaufmann This chapter provides a short summary of the commonly used tracers and techniques for assessing viability and perfusion by positron…

PET Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease Alfred Buck Bernhard Schuknecht Yasuhiro Yonekawa Cerebrovascular disease can be chronic or acute. A typical example of the latter is stroke. The clinical value of…

PET Imaging in Dementias and Extrapyramidal Disorders Alfred Buck Ehab M. Kamel Klaus Tatsch Some types of dementia display a distinct metabolic signature. The hallmark of Alzheimer disease is bilateral…

Epilepsy Imaged with PET and SPECT Alfred Buck Heinz-Gregor Wieser Positron emission tomography (PET) scans are indicated in the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy patients. Most of these patients suffer from…

Imaging of Cerebral Infection with PET Alfred Buck Ehab M. Kamel T here are a few clear indications for fluorine 18 (18F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET in infectious brain diseases. With MRI…

Brain Tumors: Other Primary Tumors, Metastases, and Radiation Injury Imaged with PET and SPECT Ian Law Lise Borgwardt Liselotte Højgaard Approximately half of all malignancies in the brain are gliomas,…