SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Researchers discovered that the time spent on a myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging study--also called a cardiac stress/rest test--can be ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death globally. One of the most common tools used to diagnose and monitor heart disease, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by single photon emission ...

Left: primary/scatter window SPECT reconstructions, plus synthetic and CT-based attenuation maps. Right: SPECT reconstructed images corrected using CT-based attenuation maps, synthetic attenuation ...

Wellington Regional Hospital in New Zealand has installed an advanced single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)-CT scanner to improve diagnostic capabilities. The new scanner incorporates the ...