Uyen T Truong,Shelby Kutty,Craig S Broberg et al.
Uyen T Truong et al.
The increasing number of survivors of congenital heart disease (CHD) has been paralleled by advancement of imaging modalities used for the ongoing assessment of these patients. There has been a large body of literature describing new approa...
The Contemporary Role of Echocardiography in Improving Patient Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy [0.03%]
当代经胸超声心动图在优化心脏再同步治疗中的作用
John Gorcsan rd,Josef J Marek,Tetsuari Onishi
John Gorcsan rd
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an important therapy for heart failure patients with widened electrocardiographic QRS complexes and depressed ejection fractions, however, approximately one-third do not respond. This article prese...
Molecular imaging of macrophage enzyme activity in cardiac inflammation [0.03%]
心脏炎症中巨噬细胞酶活性的分子影像学研究
Muhammad Ali,Benjamin Pulli,John W Chen
Muhammad Ali
Molecular imaging is highly advantageous as various insidious inflammatory events can be imaged in a serial and quantitative fashion. Combined with the conventional imaging modalities like computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) a...
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Myocardial Interstitial Expansion in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy [0.03%]
肥厚性心肌病心肌间质扩张的心脏磁共振成像检查
Timothy C Wong
Timothy C Wong
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a cardiovascular genetic disease with a varied clinical presentation and phenotype. Although mutations are typically found in genes coding for sarcomeric proteins, phenotypic derangements extend beyond t...
Yuchi Han,Timo Liimatainen,Robert C Gorman et al.
Yuchi Han et al.
There is great interest to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for non-invasive assessment of myocardial disease in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. Recently, there has been a renewed interest to use a magnetic resonance imaging...
Moriel Vandsburger
Moriel Vandsburger
Research into cell therapy based cardiac repair and regeneration has experienced explosive growth over the last decade, however further progress is hindered by an inability to serially and non-invasively image cell survival and fate decisio...
Masanao Naya,Nagara Tamaki
Masanao Naya
Metabolic imaging has a potential for better understanding of pathophysiology of heart failure. C-11 acetate is taken up by the heart, rapidly converted to acetylCoA and readily metabolized to C-11 CO2 through TCA cycle with oxidative phosp...
Gropler Robert J
Gropler Robert J
Intracoronary Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Imaging for Detection of Lipid Content of Coronary Plaques: Current Experience and Future Perspectives [0.03%]
冠状动脉近红外光谱(NIRS)成像技术检测斑块脂质含量的现状及展望
Milosz Jaguszewski,Roland Klingenberg,Ulf Landmesser
Milosz Jaguszewski
Acute coronary syndromes are frequently caused by "vulnerable" coronary plaques with a lipid-rich core. In 1993 near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was first used to detect the lipid (cholesterol) content of atherosclerotic plaques in an expe...
Carmela Nappi,Georges El Fakhri
Carmela Nappi
Simultaneous PET/MRI is an emerging technique combining two powerful imaging modalities in a single device. The wide variety of available tracers for perfusion and metabolic studies and the high sensitivity of positron emission tomography (...