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Biographies Editor Martin St John Sutton is the John Bryfogle Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Imaging at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA. He was formerly Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Laboratories at the Brigham and Women's Hospitál, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, and Consultant Cardiologist at the National Heart and Lung Hospitál, London. Dr St John Sutton is a member of the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology, and of the European Working Group on Ventricular Function and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiologists and the European Society of Cardiologists. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the European Heart Journal, Heart and the International Journal of Cardiology. Contributors Constantinos Anagnostopoulos is Consultant Physician in Nuclear Medicine and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine (National Heart and Lung Institute), London, UK. He works at the Royal Brompton Hospitál, London, and alsó at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospitál, London. His main interest is nuclear cardiology and most of his research is focused on the development of imaging techniques for the diagnosis and management of heart failure. Victor A Ferrari is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA. He is the Associate Director of the Noninvasive Imaging Laboratory of the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at the Hospitál of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Ferrari is a Founding Member of the Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, and of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Cecília Marini is an established investigator of the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy. She has considerable experience in both echocardiography and nuclear medicine application to cardiology. She is co-author of more than 50 papers on diagnostic evaluation of patients with coronary artery disease using these two techniques. Paolo Marzullo is the Director of the Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory and Viability Unit at the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology, and chaired the Working Group on Nuclear Cardiology from 1998 to 2000. Dr Marzullo is an established investigator of the Italian National Research Council.