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 ...

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 ...

Perfusion CT may be used as a noninvasive tool in detection of hepatic toxicity Date: July 8, 2010 Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology Summary: A research team from China investigated the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, France—A strategy combining fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from computed tomography (CT) with CT perfusion imaging has demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy in identifying inducible ...

A research team from Lille University Hospital in France has recently demonstrated that dual-energy computed tomography lung perfusion can provide valuable additional information for standard CT scans ...

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 ...