This exciting technique has gained rapid acceptance in routine clinical practice. This technique is similar to a standard SPECT study, except that a number of images (8 or 16) are acquired at each ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although the literature and data regarding the prognostic and diagnostic ability – as well as the wider ...

The written report is the final product of the Nuclear Medicine consultation. Reports must contain specific information to identify the patient, the specific procedure, indications for the examination ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using coronary CTA for comprehensive anatomic interpretation was superior to functional imaging to determine ...

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 ...

For patients referred for evaluation of stable angina, a tiered protocol progressing from calcium scans to CT angiography (CTA) to CT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) appears to be a viable ...

MPS involves the intravenous injection of small amounts of a radioactive tracer to evaluate perfusion of living cardiac muscle via the coronary arteries after stress and at rest. After injection, the ...

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Heart Hospital has reduced the waiting time for myocardial perfusion scan. With a mean average waiting time of 19.5 days, HMC is well within the international ...

Thallium-201 MPI has been available for over 20 years; as a result, there is a great deal of data regarding its diagnostic and prognostic value in CAD. The image quality available with thallium-201 is ...