Nuclear cardiology; the basics; how to set up and maintain a laboratory

SciTech Book News, March, 2008

Nuclear cardiology; the basics; how to set up and maintain a laboratory. (CD-ROM included)

Wackers, Frans J. Th. et al.

Humana Press Inc.

2008

433 pages

$99.50

Hardcover

Contemporary cardiology

RC683

The authors (of Yale U. School of Medicine and Yale--New Haven Hospital) review the relevant issues a laboratory director must address in setting up and maintaining a nuclear cardiology laboratory, primarily dealing with those topics pertinent to outpatient imaging facilities, bust also dealing with issues related to in-patient hospital-based laboratories. They open with coverage of equipment, availability of radiopharmaceuticals, staff qualifications, provision of information to patients, laboratory logistics, and radiation safety. They then discuss acquisition and processing protocols, as well as imaging display and analysis for SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, planar myocardial perfusion imaging, planar equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography, and SPECT equilibrium angiocardiography. Later chapters address nuclear cardiology reports, remote reading and networking, quality assurance, emergency department imaging, laboratory accreditation, coding and billing, and appropriateness criteria for nuclear cardiology procedures.

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