The following question has been sent by Dr. Shrinivas Desai: DSCT Myocardial perfusion versus SPECT CT myocardial perfusion: Jaslok Hospital in mumbai, India is buying Siemens DSCT (Flash Definition Dual source Dual energy). We already have a SPECT on which thallium myocardial perfusion is done. The nuclear medicine department is considering acquiring … Read more

In conclusion, our initial experience suggests that DECT, as a single examination, might be promising for the integrative analysis of the coronary artery morphology and the myocardial blood supply and is in good agreement with ICA and SPECT. Read more

The following question has been sent by Antonio Maestro: Use of Flash and DE to replace SPECT in detection of ischemia tests? Hi, i am doing a research to assess the clinical and patient workflow results of using a DSCT Definition Flash for the Chest Pain Unit patients. It seems clear to me … Read more

The following question has been sent by Antonio Maestro: Use of Flash and DE to replace SPECT in detection of ischemia tests? Hi, i am doing a research to assess the clinical and patient workflow results of using a DSCT Definition Flash for the Chest Pain Unit patients. It seems clear to me … Read more

For decades, dual-energy imaging has been used for tissue differentiation with several x-ray–based imaging modalities, exploiting the fact that the tissues in the human body show different absorption characteristics when penetrated with different x-ray spectra, spectra that are typically generated by different kV settings of the x-ray tube. Recently, dual-source … Read more

This article of Balazs Ruzsics, M.D., has been published in March 2008 in Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association. Please find the link to the article below. Authors: Balazs Ruzsics, Heon Lee, Eric R. Powers, Thomas G. Flohr, Philip Costello and U. Joseph Schoepf Circulation. 2008;117:1244-1245 Read more

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