This book explains in detail the potential value of the hybrid modalities SPECT-CT and PET-CT
in the imaging of cardiac innervation in a wide range of conditions and diseases including
ischemic heart disease diabetes mellitus heart failure amyloidosis heart transplantation
and ventricular arrhythmias. Imaging of the brain-heart axis in neurodegenerative disease and
stress and of cardiotoxicity is also discussed. The roles of the various available tracers are
fully considered and individual chapters address radiopharmaceutical development under GMP
imaging physics and kinetic modeling software. Highly relevant background information is
included on the autonomic nervous system of the heart and its pathophysiology and in addition
future perspectives are discussed. Awareness of the importance of autonomic innervation of the
heart for the optimal management of cardiac patients is growing and there is an evident need
for objective measurement techniques or imaging modalities. In this context Autonomic
Innervation of the Heart will be of wide interest to clinicians researchers and industry.
