For those who haven’t entered the valley of middle age, a CAC is a specialized CT scan that looks for calcium deposits in the heart and its arteries. Unlike in your bones, having calcium in your ...

Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to talk about ...

The coronary calcium score may help doctors identify which patients truly benefit from statins—and who might not need them at ...

An AI-assisted model developed by researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and the School of ...

The University of Missouri's AI-assisted model TagGen can increase image quality and lower scan time for MRI heart scans.

A new PET/CT imaging technique that visualizes activated fibroblasts in the heart muscle enables early detection of multiple ...

Timothy Anderson, a primary care physician at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, isn’t so sure CT scans would prove to be sufficiently better at predicting heart attacks than the PREVENT ...

And since then, the number of CT examinations performed annually in this country has increased by more than 30%. This new study is just the latest to question the safety of CT scans.

o Coronary CTA: Uses contrast dye to create 3D images of the arteries and detect blockages. Cardiac CT scans are quick, painless, and a highly accurate way to assess heart health.

The Updated NICE Guidelines: Cardiac CT as the First-Line Test for Coronary Artery Disease. Curr Cardiovasc Imaging Rep (2017) 10: 15. viii Shapiro MD et al. EurJ Radiol. 2008;66 (1):37–41.

In preparation for this type of CT scan, you’ll need to avoid anything that increases your heart rate or affects coronary blood flow, as this can make it more challenging to get accurate images.

A 1,000-person study using Heartflow Inc. technology demonstrated that findings of coronary plaque on heart CT scans could indicate which patients were at risk of cardiovascular events up to seven ...