The radioactive tracers seek out active and dangerous plaques and, when combined with high resolution images of the heart and blood vessels, can provide a picture of the main danger areas.
How do we integrate clinical information with advanced high resolution imaging of the heart to predict how cardiac patients will recuperate, and identify those who need more intensive therapy?
A new method of scanning the heart using high resolution images and radioactive tracers could help identify people at highest risk of a heart attack.
We imaged myocytes and collagen across the left ventricular wall at high resolution in seven normal rat hearts using extended volume confocal microscopy.
"These are the first images at high resolution of the beating [mammalian] heart," says Kirill Larin, assistant professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering at the University of Houston.
Alternatively, these instruments can quickly scan small areas (such as the heart) with very high resolution in a very short period of time (eg, diastole).
This report describes the operating characteristics and initial clinical results of a new echocardiographic system that produces real-time, high resolution, cross-sectional images of the heart.
We have shown that we can obtain high resolution 3D images of the beating heart through the use of real-time non-invasive gating.
Next, we investigated the impact of Mena/VASP deficiency on the electrical conduction in the mammalian heart and performed high resolution ECG recordings.
Further investigations are at the discretion of the treating physician and typically include lung function tests, ventilation/perfusion lung scans, high resolution CT and CT pulmonary angiography, and right heart catheterisation, if available (figure 3).
In a previous study, we demonstrated the merits of high resolution MRI in visualizing the diabetic heart and characterized the structural properties of non-beating myocardial tissue in the STZ-diabetic Sprague-Dawley rat [ 11].
