Brain injury survivors can benefit from the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine (CANM)’s recent adoption, ratification and endorsement of the Guidelines for Brain Perfusion Single Photon Emission ...

Mallory Hendry of Law Times sat down with Daniel Klein, associate at Thomson Rogers, to discuss the implications of two recent decisions dealing with the admissibility of SPECT scan imaging. Amidst ...

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scan uses computed tomography technique to trace the movement of a radioactive material injected into the body. It tracks the blood flow into tissues ...

Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienced a significant increase in the detection of severe ...

CHICAGO – When children present with back pain, physicians want to expose them to the least amount of medical testing without missing a diagnosis. Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...

"Typically, when a patient presents with chest pain and the [SPECT] test result is normal, we tell them everything looks fine, but this may not be the case," says John Mahmarian, M.D., a cardiologist ...

The new nuclear medicine machine has an improved version of a gamma camera that costs Rs 1 crore.It will benefit cancer, heart, brain, kidney and thyroid patients specifically. The Spect scan is an ...

SAN DIEGO, CA — In a large study of patients in Korea with suspected CAD, those who were sent for coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) were more likely to survive and not be hospitalized ...

Two steps involved in a SPECT scan are: Injection of a radioactive substance: An intravenous injection of a radioactive tracer will be administered and the patient has to wait for it to spread ...

image: Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienced a significant increase in the detection of ...