Study: New Heart Scan Has Less Radiation Than MRI, Invasive Angiography

A new heart scan is faster and has lower radiation exposure than MRI and invasive angiography, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.

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Researchers compared three different imaging techniques for patients with intermediate to high coronary risk. One was a 128-slice myocardial CT perfusion imaging with adenosine stress using a high-pitch mode. The other two were cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and invasive angiography.

The researchers found stress-CTP could simultaneously assess reversible myocardial ischemia and coronary stenosis with good diagnostic accuracy, compared to CMR and IA, and also demonstrated very low radiation exposure.

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