Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is the standard of care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), when performed by experienced groups in a timely manner. Although ...

June 17, 2008 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — A new means of performing gated single-photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion produces data in half the usual acquisition time, with ...

Quantitative gated SPECT (QGS)is useful imaging for the myocardial perfusion and left ventricular function. To assess simultaneously myocardial perfusion and left ventricular contractile reserve by ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Researchers discovered that the time spent on a myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging study--also called a cardiac stress/rest test--can be ...

In selected patients, perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive in detecting ischemic coronary artery disease (CAD) than single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

Left: primary/scatter window SPECT reconstructions, plus synthetic and CT-based attenuation maps. Right: SPECT reconstructed images corrected using CT-based attenuation maps, synthetic attenuation ...

In a randomized trial of three diagnostic strategies for patients with suspected coronary heart disease, the use of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging significantly reduced the likelihood of ...

New heart imaging technology to diagnose coronary heart disease and other heart disorders is significantly more accurate, less expensive and safer than traditional methods, according to a new study by ...

New findings published in the November 10, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) say that by relying solely on a patient's clinical risk profile or the results of one ...

Low-dose stress 99m technetium tetrofosmin CZT imaging 4.2 Rubidium stress/rest PET 2.3 CT: Computed tomography; CZT: Cadmium zinc telluride; PA: Posteroanterior; SPECT: Single-photon emission ...