'Motion-frozen' technology meets high-definition PET: Helping heart patients

Monday, June 15, 2009 - 16:21 in Health & Medicine

Combining high-definition positron emission tomography (PET) and 'motion-frozen' technology provides enhanced cardiac images. The motion-frozen technology adds physiological details that were previously invisible to physicians, according to researchers at SNM's 56th Annual Meeting in Toronto. A new study of the combined technologies shows that the method provides exceptional PET image quality and can significantly change the diagnosis of patients with heart disease...

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