Myocardial perfusion CT, cardiac MR match up well

April 15, 2008 Myocardial perfusion CT, cardiac MR match up well James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A preliminary study indicates that first-pass and delayed-enhancement myocardial CT correlate well with measures of infarction size gathered with equivalent cardiac MR procedures. Dr. Koen Nieman and associates in the radiology and cardiology departments at Massachusetts General Hospital compared results from 64-slice CT and 1.5T cardiac MR performed on 21 patients within five days of a percutaneous coronary intervention to recanalize one or more coronary arteries after an acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

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