Development of the “polar map” method in nuclear cardiology

Methods and clinical applications in nuclear cardiology: a position statement

Nuklearmedizin ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1623996 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 41 (01) ◽

pp. 3-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

M. Schäfers

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Cardiology ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Imaging Techniques ◽

Cost Savings ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Position Statement ◽

Electron Beam Tomography ◽

Partial Functions ◽

Cost Benefit Ratio ◽

Medicine Today

SummaryNuclear cardiological procedures have paved the way for non-invasive diagnostics of various partial functions of the heart. Many of these functions cannot be visualised for diagnosis by any other method (e. g. innervation). These techniques supplement morphological diagnosis with regard to treatment planning and monitoring. Furthermore, they possess considerable prognostic relevance, an increasingly important issue in clinical medicine today, not least in view of the cost-benefit ratio.Our current understanding shows that effective, targeted nuclear cardiology diagnosis – in particular for high-risk patients – can contribute toward cost savings while improving the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic measures.In the future, nuclear cardiology will have to withstand mounting competition from other imaging techniques (magnetic resonance imaging, electron beam tomography, multislice computed tomography). The continuing development of these methods increasingly enables measurement of functional aspects of the heart. Nuclear radiology methods will probably develop in the direction of molecular imaging.

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Position paper nuclear cardiology: Update 2008

Nuklearmedizin ◽

10.3413/nukmed-0220 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 48 (02) ◽

pp. 71-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

F. Bengel ◽

U. Büll ◽

W. Burchert ◽

P. Kies ◽

R. Kluge ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nuclear Medicine ◽

Nuclear Cardiology ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Position Paper ◽

Circulation Research ◽

Diagnostic Algorithms ◽

Clinical Diagnostic ◽

Common Position ◽

German Association

SummaryNuclear cardiology is well established in clinical diagnostic algorithms for many years. This is an update 2008 of the first common position paper of the German Association of Nuclear Medicine and the German Association of Cardiology, Heart and Circulation Research published in 2001 aiming at an overview of state-of-the-art scintigraphic methods.

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