The highest proportion of appropriate ratings address the use of cardiac computed tomography in the evaluation of chest pain and for evaluation of cardiac structure.

"It's like magic." A cardiac CT angiogram is a test that essentially conducts "a CAT scan for the heart," said Dr. Aeshita Dwivedi, a cardiologist at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital. The full-body ...

ABU DHABI, UAE — Extending the simple CT angiography (CTA) scan given to all patients with acute stroke on presentation to the hospital to include the upper part of the heart increased the ...

The names given to the various kinds of cardiac CT scans can be confusing, but any CT scan used to measure coronary artery ...

In the past, such symptoms might mean a treadmill stress test or a cardiac catheterization to diagnose the problem. That's changing with the advent of new imaging technology: CT scans, MRI ...

Their research estimates that just 27% of people with symptoms of angina had the specialist CT scan last year. The Scottish government said deaths from heart disease had fallen by 40% over the ...

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

Honorary consultant cardiologist Dr Pankaj Garg has been working on imaging technology for heart disease since 2014 ... an £8m project to replace ageing CT and MRI scanners at the Norfolk and ...

Computed tomography (CT) scanning provides images of sections of the body (slices) using special X ray equipment and sophisticated computers. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood ...

Predicting who is at high risk for a heart attack or death may be as simple as obtaining a person's coronary artery calcium ...