MDCT pulmonary angiography is replacing the ventilation-perfusion lung scan to diagnose suspected pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients, say researchers from Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

Backround A 40-year-old woman presented with dyspnea in the fifth month of pregnancy followed by a sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain 2 weeks postpartum. She was diagnosed as having pulmonary ...

Polarean, a commercial-stage medical imaging company advancing functional MRI of the lungs, today highlighted the publication ...

A 62-year-old man was resuscitated from a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. His coronary angiogram was normal, and a gated blood pool scan demonstrated normal left ventricular function. An ...

The time to initiate intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke is generally limited to within 4.5 hours after the onset of symptoms. Some trials have suggested that the treatment window may ...

To detect in-stent restenosis among patients with coronary stents, a new study shows the potential for improved diagnostic accuracy by adding computed tomography perfusion imaging to coronary CT ...

Patients with an intermediate 50% to 70% stenosed coronary lesion found on CT angiography (CTA); CT perfusion may be able to determine whether the lesion needs to be treated. Patients about to undergo ...