Background: Scintigraphy has been considered as competitive to MRI, but limited data are available on the accuracy of single photon emission tomography (SPECT) compared with MRI for the assessment of ...

August 12, 2008 — Preliminary results from studies of dedicated breast computed tomography (CT) scanners, alone and in combination with positron emission tomography (PET), were presented at the recent ...

When combined with standard diagnostic tests, functional imaging procedures have been shown to reduce the rate of misdiagnosed cases of infectious endocarditis. Infectious endocarditis is an infection ...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — A cardiac SPECT imaging system performs scans 10 to 100 times faster than current SPECT systems, according to new research presented at the Society of Nuclear ...

Adding functional imaging to structural imaging of patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) has the potential to improve current VT ablation strategies, according to new research published in the ...

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 ...

'Multimodality' imaging—the side-by-side interpretation of data obtained from various noninvasive imaging techniques, such as echocardiography, radionuclide techniques, multidetector CT (MDCT), and ...