While your heart pumps blood to the rest of your body, a network of arteries known as coronary arteries brings blood to your heart muscle. If these get too narrow, it can be hard for your heart to get ...

After the rest injection of the perfusion tracer, which helps the cardiologist to see the anatomy of your heart and look at how it is functioning, the rest images are obtained in the same fashion as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent advances in scanner technology have made the use of CT stress myocardial perfusion imaging feasible. Just how well it matches up to MR perfusion in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD ...

Myocardial perfusion imaging is an imaging device which work non-invasively to show the blood flow, myocardial perfusion imaging also known as nuclear cardiology test. The main function of this ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Stress myocardial perfusion imaging is not very helpful in evaluating syncope in patients without known heart disease, even those at high risk for it. These are the ...

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 ...

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's (SNMMI) Cardiovascular Council and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) have issued the joint position paper, Clinical ...

To detect in-stent restenosis among patients with coronary stents, a new study shows the potential for improved diagnostic accuracy by adding computed tomography perfusion imaging to coronary CT ...