Study 2 included patients with known or suspected CAD who had ICA without intervention within 60 days before imaging or were ... branch by QCA or a history of myocardial infarction.

A new radioactive tracer for positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging will soon be available in the United States, and it’s expected to facilitate substantial growth in such ...

myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) under rest or stress (pharmacologic or exercise) in adult patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) to evaluate for myocardial ischemia and ...

A cardiac perfusion test tells your doctor if the muscles of your heart are getting enough blood. It's also known as myocardial perfusion imaging or a nuclear stress test. Your doctor will put ...

A nuclear stress test uses a camera and a radioactive tracer — a small amount of a radioactive substance injected into a vein — to show how blood flows during rest and activity. Generally, it ...

Over the past half century, radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has played a transformative role in the evaluation of patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD). The ...

Study: Machine learning-based diagnosis and risk classification of coronary artery disease using myocardial perfusion imaging SPECT: A radiomics study. Image Credit: mi_viri/Shutterstock.com ...

A heart perfusion imaging scan, or myocardial perfusion scan, is a test that tells doctors how well a person’s heart pumps blood. Doctors may use this test when diagnosing the cause of chest ...

Known also as a myocardial perfusion scan, this procedure uses a tiny amount of radioactive material (nuclear tracer) to help reveal how well or how poorly blood travels through the heart’s ...