AS RECENTLY AS a few years ago, many nuclear medicine physicians would have taken the position that Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine is now a static field. Similar perhaps in many ways to bone imaging, they would have suggested that all that is left to do is to make some detailed refinements of the techniques, but the big discoveries had been made. This issue and the second part of this issue of Seminars in Nuclear Medicine will certainly discredit that point of view. There are many, many new developments in this field