mitral valve regurgitation (mvr) is a common valvular disease in dogs. hydrokinetic evaluation of the blood flow within the ventricles has become possible by vector flow mapping (vfm), which shows the blood flow within the ventricles in vector and vortex flows. blood flow within the left ventricle of mvr dogs was compared at different stages of mvr and to that of normal dogs. 14 normal dogs and...

The concept of multimodality imaging has been developing rapidly in recent years due to the need to integrate information on anatomy (which defines coronary artery disease) with functional data (which reflects the effects of this disease on tissues) to enable the proper evaluation of patients with ischemic heart disease. From the clinical point of view, it has been well established that a compl...

Despite advancements in technologies, non-uniform soft tissue attenuation still affects the diagnostic accuracy of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging. A variety of indirect measures have been used to reduce the impact of attenuation, most notably electrocardiography-gated SPECT imaging. However, all available techniques have limitations, making inter...

With the rapid growth of molecular biology, in vivo imaging of such molecular process (i.e., molecular imaging) has been well developed. The molecular imaging has been focused on justifying advanced treatments and for assessing the treatment effects. Most of molecular imaging has been developed using PET camera and suitable PET radiopharmaceuticals. However, this technique cannot be widely avai...

The Israel Heart Society (IHS, www.israel-heart.org.il) is a formal society of the Israel Medical Association (IMA), and acts as a formal representative of the cardiology community in Israel. The aims of our society are to augment the professional and scientific knowledge of therapy and prevention of heart diseases in Israel. The IHS is a formal member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine inter-rater reliability of the 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for radionuclide imaging and whether physicians at various levels of training can effectively identify nuclear stress tests with inappropriate indications. METHODS AND RESULTS Four hundred patients were randomly selected from a consecutive cohort of patients undergoing nuclear stress testing at an a...

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S/PROCEEDINGS Multimodality imaging: Bird’s eye view from The European Society of Cardiology Congress 2015 London, August 29-September 2, 2015 Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhD, Victoria Delgado, MD, PhD, Stephan Achenbach, MD, PhD, Udo Sechtem, MD, PhD, and Juhani Knuuti, MD, PhD a Department of Cardiology, Heart Lung Centrum, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands b Department of Card...