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This editorial introduces a special issue comprising 15 papers that highlight recent progress, clinical applications, and future directions of quantitative cardiovascular imaging.
Various imaging modalities including CT, MR, echocardiography, SPECT, and PET are increasingly used for the diagnostic evaluation and functional assessment of cardiovascular disease.
May inform clinical adoption of quantitative CV imaging; leaves open standardization and outcome validation across modalities.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in advanced countries and its prevalence is increasing among developing countries. Various imaging modalities are increasingly used in the diagnostic evaluation of cardiovascular disease, among which cardiac computed tomography (CT)angiography, cardiac MR, and echocardiography represent the most commonly performed imaging examinations in routine clinical practice, while nuclear medicine imaging such as cardiac single photon emission CT (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) is also frequently used to provide functional assessment of cardiovascular disease (1-5).
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Zhonghua Sun (2014) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. This editorial introduces a special issue comprising 15 papers that highlight recent progress, clinical applications, and future directions of quantitative cardiovascular imaging.
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