When it comes to diagnostic imaging of your heart – such as MRI, CT, SPECT, PET – it can be overwhelming to know what kind of scan is right for you. What is your doctor looking for, and what exactly ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A person's long-term risk of heart disease is better assessed by a pair of studies, as performing only one may miss a dangerous buildup of calcium in arteries, U.S. researchers ...

Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

Heart disease is a nasty enough problem. It would be nice if the tests you have to go through just to get your diagnosis didn’t cause so much unpleasantness of their own. Now they may not have to, ...

The breakthrough could make scans sharper, faster, cheaper, and safer — expanding access to high-quality nuclear medicine imaging for patients worldwide. Physicians rely on nuclear medicine scans, ...

Physicians rely on nuclear medicine scans, like SPECT scans, to watch the heart pump, track blood flow and detect diseases hidden deep inside the body. But today's scanners depend on expensive ...