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 ...

Background: Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is one of the main factors causing coronary stenosis and is often identified on ordinary chest computed tomography (CT).This study aims to explore the ...

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 ...

Objective To assess the prognostic value of low-dose 64-slice coronary CT angiography (CCTA) using prospective ECG triggering in a patient population with known or suspected coronary artery disease ...

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

In an early look at SCOT-HEART 2, CCTA led more primary-prevention patients to make changes to reduce their risk of CVD.

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 ...

A new PET/CT imaging technique that visualizes activated fibroblasts in the heart muscle enables early detection of multiple forms of cardiomyopathy, according to research presented at the Society of ...

They also showed NaF uptake in carotid plaques of asymptomatic patients was significantly associated with cardiovascular risk factors. 187 Similarly, Dweck et al 188 showed that higher coronary NaF ...

Cardiac CT (CCT) is widely available and has been validated for the detection of focal myocardial scar using a delayed enhancement technique in this paper. CCT, however, has not been previously ...