Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) is the standard of care for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), when performed by experienced groups in a timely manner. Although ...

Consecutive patients referred to the Nuclear Medicine Department at St. Boniface General Hospital for gated SPECT stress/rest sestamibi myocardial perfusion scintigraphy between February 2005 and July ...

In a study comparing the ability of various medical techniques to accurately determine the extent of heart disease and stratify patients according to disease severity, researchers found that ...

Quantitative gated SPECT (QGS)is useful imaging for the myocardial perfusion and left ventricular function. To assess simultaneously myocardial perfusion and left ventricular contractile reserve by ...

This exciting technique has gained rapid acceptance in routine clinical practice. This technique is similar to a standard SPECT study, except that a number of images (8 or 16) are acquired at each ...