Comprehensive and highly practical, Nuclear Cardiology: The Basics, How to Set Up and Maintain a Laboratory offers the first concise, action-oriented plan for successful solution of the many practical and technical details that result in a nuclear cardiology laboratory operating at a high level of competence.

Preface Acknowledgments Authors' Affiliations How to Use the CD 1 Getting Started 1 2 Laboratory Logistics 21 3 Radiation Safety 31 4 Patient Preparation 35 5 Stress Procedures 43 6 SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Acquisition and Processing Protocols 61 7 Planar Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Acquisition and Processing Protocols 73 8 Planar Equilibrium Radionuclide Angiocardiography Acquisition and Processing Protocols 81 9 SPECT Equilibrium Radionuclide Angiocardiography Acquisition and Processing Protocols 91 10 Display and Analysis of SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Images 97 11 Display and Analysis of Planar Myocardial Perfusion Images 127 12 Display and Analysis of Planar Equilibrium Angiocardiography 135 13 Display and Analysis of SPECT Equilibrium Radionuclide Angiocardiography 139 14 Artifacts and Technical Problems in Cardiac Imaging 143 15 Nuclear Cardiology Reports 239 16 Remote Reading and Networking: Tele-Nuclear Cardiology 249 17 Quality Assurance 255 18 Miscellaneous Additional Laboratory Protocols and Policies 267 19 Emergency Department Chest-Pain Center Imaging 275 20 Coding and Billing 281 21 Laboratory Accreditation 289 Index 293