Noninvasive Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia
Noninvasive cardiac imaging is an integral part of the practice of current clinical cardiology.
During the past three decades a number of distinctly different noninvasive
imaging techniques of the heart, such as radionuclide imaging, echocardiography, magnetic
resonance imaging, and X-ray computed tomography have been developed.
Remarkable progress has been made by each of these technologies in terms of technical
advances, clinical procedures, and clinical applications/indications. Each technique was
propelled by a devoted group of talented and dedicated investigators who explored the
potential value of each technique for making clinical diagnoses and for defining clinical
characteristics of heart disease that might be most useful in the management of patients.
Thus...