Cardiac PET is a powerful imaging modality for diagnosing heart disease. While many healthcare providers have PET/CT cameras, they might lack the capability to offer cardiac PET if their anticipated ...

Nearly 700,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cardiac PET is an imaging modality that helps diagnose heart ...

Karin Rexroad peeks through the bore of the PET-CT scanner at LMH Health. Positron emission tomography, or PET, scans have long been used to diagnose cancer and determine how far it has progressed.

Dynamic PET images of 100 ms frames alternating between end-diastolic and end-systolic phases of five cardiac cycles. (Courtesy: PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1917379117) The researchers developed a method to ...

Currently, the standard tool used to diagnose left ventricle hypertrophy (LVH) is MRI, which provides information on the late stage structural and functional changes that arise. However, MRI cannot ...

Figure 1. Maximum-intensity projections and fusion images of [68 Ga]Ga-FAPI PET/CT from representative patients of different NICM subtypes. PET scans were classified into three columns, including ...

GE HealthCare’s FDA-approved flurpiridaz F 18 PET radiotracer, Flyrcado, delivers higher diagnostic efficacy in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), compared to SPECT MPI, ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) has delivered the first patient doses of Flyrcado™ (flurpiridaz F 18) injection, a first-of-its-kind unit dose positron emission ...

HOUSTON – (Not for use before July 3, 2007) -- Current PET-CT scanners with standard commercial software designed to provide images of the heart are falsely indicating coronary artery disease in as ...

Niagara Falls, NY, Jan. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Positron Corporation (POSC), a leading molecular imaging medical device company specializing in PET and PET-CT imaging systems and clinical ...

Fraud on federal health programs often revolves around illicit billings for in vitro diagnostics, but the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has added mobile cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) ...

GE HealthCare’s agreement with CardioNavix, a part of the CDL Nuclear Technologies services group, further broadens the reach of Flyrcado. Through their nearly 225 U.S. customers, CDL and CardioNavix ...