title: Multi-modality imaging: Bird's eye view from the 2016 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
abstract: This review summarizes key imaging studies that were presented in the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2016 related to the fields of nuclear cardiology, cardiac computed tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance, and echocardiography. This bird's eye view will inform readers about multiple studies from these different modalities. We hope that this general overview will be useful for those that did not attend the conference as well as to those that did since it is often difficult to get exposure to many abstracts at large meetings. The review, therefore, aims to help readers stay updated on the newest imaging studies presented at the meeting.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Clemenceau Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
authors.forename: Wael A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: AlJaroudi
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lyons Harrison Research Building 306, 1900 University BLVD, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.|Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Steven G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Lloyd
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Farooq A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Chaudhry
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lyons Harrison Research Building 306, 1900 University BLVD, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA. fadihage@uab.edu.|Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA. fadihage@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Fadi G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Hage
mesh_terms: D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States
keywords: Echocardiography; MIBG imaging; PET/CT imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; myocardial perfusion imaging: SPECT