ABSTRACT
Preface 6
Contributors 7
Abbreviations 8
Chapter One An Overview of the Assessment of
Cardiovascular Disease by Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Techniques 9
Frans J. Th. Wackers, Robert L. McNamara, and Yi-Hwa Liu Introduction 9 Cardiac imaging parameters 10 Stress testing 10
Physical exercise 10 Vasodilator stress 11 Adrenergic stress 11 Choice of imaging modality in stress
testing 11 Clinical indications 12 Pathophysiological vs.
