In the last decade, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI ... PET findings included perfusion deficits at rest or with stress and measures of MBF, including response to cold pressor testing. For ...

Stress cardiomyopathy is the result of the direct effects of high levels of epinephrine on the ventricular myocardium High levels of epinephrine are negatively inotropic; they switch β2 ...

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI ... The sensitivity of pharmacologic stress is believed to be roughly equivalent to that of an exercise stress test in which the maximal 85% of age-predicted heart ...

Although no conclusion can yet be made regarding efficacy, the improved myocardial perfusion ... time of enrollment into the trials. Nuclear scintigraphy perfusion analysis detected objective ...

2 this article will focus on dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). The hallmark of induced ischaemia on DSE is the development of a new or worsening regional wall motion abnormality. At low dose, ...

The emergence of 18 F-based myocardial perfusion radiopharmaceuticals is anticipated to increase the use of cardiac stress testing; therefore, it is crucial for personnel, including nuclear medicine .

For evaluation of imaging methods in myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), one approach to knowing ... as reviewed by board-certified nuclear-medicine or nuclear- cardiology physicians. Using ...

med.kindai.ac.jp Objective To assess the feasibility of quantitative myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI ... In normal control subjects, stress-rest SPECT MPI (using 201 Tl chloride) was performed using ...

This is where it all began—the world’s first nuclear explosion. Twice a year, visitors can stand where history turned radioactive at the Trinity Test Site in New Mexico. Here's what it's like ...

France is working on a test of how insurers and investment funds would weather a period of economic and market stress as turmoil earlier this year, highlighting how financial regulators are increasing ...

The Federal Reserve and banking trade groups agreed to pause litigation over the stress testing process for big banks while ... seek public comment on the scenarios the central bank uses to test banks ...

72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear artillery test. The military actually made an atomic artillery shell, loaded it into a 280mm cannon and fired it. And it worked.