Nuclear Cardiology: Practical Applications

Nuclear cardiology in Iran in 2002 [Persian]

Aim: Few nuclear cardiology surveys were published in the literature, mostly from developed countries. The aim of this study is to perform a nuclear cardiology survey in Iran. This may lead to better decision making and programming. Methods and Materials: A questionnaire was sent by mail or e-mail to all nuclear medicine centers in Iran asking for details of nuclear cardiology practice in...

[Evidence-based cardiology: practical applications of clinical epidemiology].

El cardiólogo se enfrenta a diario con decisiones clínicas que requieren un entendimiento claro, a la vez práctico y sucinto, de conceptos básicos de Epidemiología Clínica. Definida por Sackett y colaboradores,1 como una “ciencia básica para la medicina clínica”, este conocimiento le permite establecer un criterio acerca de la respuesta a ciertas preguntas que sus pacientes le presentan. En los...

Hybrid Phantom Applications to Nuclear Medicine

Annually, many people are irradiated for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Assessment of radiation dose and its related risks to patients are important issues in radiation protection dosimetry. The complex mathematical calculations of the absorbed and effective doses are now done with computers. The calculations are performed with the help of anthropomorphic computational models of human bod...

International perspectives on nuclear cardiology.

Nuclear cardiology, Part IV: Viability.

After reading Part IV of this series of nuclear cardiology articles, the reader should be able to describe: (a) the differences between SPECT and PET techniques; (b) the various radiopharmaceuticals and imaging protocols used for detecting viability with SPECT; (c) the different radiopharmaceuticals and imaging protocols used for detecting viability with PET; and (d) the imaging patterns observ...