The photon-counting CT protocol has other promising applications in lung imaging. It can provide important preoperative identification of areas of emphysema and perfusion defects in patients with ...

Latest findings in CT radiation dose reduction efforts Date: August 4, 2010 Source: Mayo Clinic Summary: In recent years, advances in CT scanner technology have made perfusion computed tomography ...

Recent advances in scanner technology have made the use of CT stress myocardial perfusion imaging feasible. Just how well it matches up to MR perfusion in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD ...

September 11, 2009 — A novel cardiac computed-tomography (CT) protocol that combines stress and rest myocardial perfusion imaging with coronary CT angiography in a single test can identify ...

Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital are the latest additions to a list of California hospitals where overdoses occurred during CT brain perfusion scans.

MONTREAL, QC — In stress testing using regadenoson (Lexiscan, Astellas), detection rates of myocardial ischemia were similar with less invasive computed-tomography (CT) perfusion imaging ...

Richard T. George, M.D., from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted rest and adenosine stress CT perfusion imaging and either exercise or ...

A trial of tenecteplase in patients who had stroke symptoms when they awoke, but who were not selected on the basis of CT perfusion imaging or perfusion–diffusion MRI, showed that tenecteplase ...