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The team analyzed and followed for nearly seven years 15,562 patients who were given SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, a test that assesses blood flow to the heart during both stress and rest to ...

Patients also received rest and stress single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) MPI on a different ... intervention within 60 days before imaging or were scheduled for ICA (N=755).

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 ...

PROMISE compared use of less invasive CT angiography with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for patients with suspected CAD. Although the trial did not show any change in outcomes for use of CT ...

Over the past half century, radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has played a transformative role ... with an emphasis on the necessary transition from SPECT to PET. The shifting paradigm ...

For cardiac perfusion imaging and myocardial blood flow (MBF ... of ≥50% stenosis by ICA was significantly higher than SPECT; however, the specificity did not meet the prespecified ...

Because of issues with existing tracers, “cardiac PET has not really taken off, even though all prior research has shown that it is superior to SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging,” Maddahi said, ...