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 | Insights Into Cardiac Imaging for 2010
With new CPT reimbursement codes for cardiac computed tomography (CT) starting in January 2010, there will likely be renewed interest in CT this coming year.
This and...
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 | Cardiac PET Adoption Gets a Boost
Our profession faces one of the most significant crises in its history,” said Michael Graham, M.D., president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), regarding the...
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 | The Cardiac Device Market Outlook for 2010
In recent years, the U.S. cardiac device market has focused on dynamics in the drug-eluting stent (DES) segment – including events ranging from the 2006 BASKET-LATE trial...
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 | New Methods to Detect Vulnerable Plaque
Ruptured vulnerable plaque (VP) is blamed for the majority of acute myocardial infarctions and many strokes, but there is extensive debate over which modalities are best...
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 | PET/CT Targets MPI
Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) is an application that has been recently bolstered by the...
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SPECT vs. PET, Which is Best?
If the case went to court for whether positron emission tomography (PET) or single, photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is better suited for myocardial perfusion...
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 | Heart Hospital: A League of Their Own
New York’s Mount Sinai Heart has it all: a star-studded line-up of internationally renowned physicians, scientists and educators, cutting-edge research and unparalleled...
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 | The New Cath Lab
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 70 million Americans currently live with cardiovascular disease, with 700,000 dying from it each...
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 | PET Evens the Score in PET/CT
As in most partnerships, rarely are all things equal. Such is the case with hybrid PET/CT systems, where the vast majority of the improvements have benefited the CT side of...
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