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 ...

Use of 3-D whole heart myocardial perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accurately predicts the presence of ischemia-producing stenosis as measured by fractional flow reserve (FFR). The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients in East Texas now have access to a new, advanced form of heart-imaging technology that physicians say can provide ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death globally. One of the most common tools used to diagnose and monitor heart disease, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by single photon emission ...

Combining two types of heart scan techniques could help doctors to detect the deadly heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) before symptoms and signs on conventional tests appear. Combining ...

image: Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienced a significant increase in the detection of ...

A new heart scan is faster and has lower radiation exposure than MRI and invasive angiography, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. Researchers compared three ...