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This screening test measures how well blood flows through your heart. It may be used to diagnose coronary artery disease or to assess damage caused by a heart attack. Share on Pinterest JazzIRT/Getty ...

While your heart pumps blood to the rest of your body, a network of arteries known as coronary arteries brings blood to your heart muscle. If these get too narrow, it can be hard for your heart to get ...

Not every center schedules its rest and stress studies the same way; however, the test is always performed at rest and at stress to see how your heart and blood vessels are functioning. In the event ...

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and multislice CT (MSCT) both enable noninvasive imaging of suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). The former detects ischemia, whereas the latter identifies ...

For patients referred for evaluation of stable angina, a tiered protocol progressing from calcium scans to CT angiography (CTA) to CT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) appears to be a viable ...

Patients with an intermediate 50% to 70% stenosed coronary lesion found on CT angiography (CTA); CT perfusion may be able to determine whether the lesion needs to be treated. Patients about to undergo ...

Myocardial perfusion imaging is an imaging device which work non-invasively to show the blood flow, myocardial perfusion imaging also known as nuclear cardiology test. The main function of this ...

Computed tomographic perfusion (CTP) imaging with a 128-dual source scanner offers good diagnostic accuracy at low radiation exposure compared with conventional imaging methods. The results, from a ...

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Heart Hospital has reduced the waiting time for myocardial perfusion scan. With a mean average waiting time of 19.5 days, HMC is well within the international ...