Although myocardial perfusion PET, using either cyclotron-producedammonia or generator-produced rubidium 82, has reported excellentdiagnostic capabilities in the detection of coronary artery disease(CAD) in individual studies, the technique is not widely used inpractice, which may be driven by cost and availability or byunawareness of performance, according to the April issue of Academic Radiology.

Seniors over the age of 80 can safely undergo diagnostic angiographyand arterial interventions, such as vascular stenting and angioplasty,and respond as well as younger patients, according a study presented atthe annual meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology(SIR).

Lumedx, a provider of imaging and information system solutions, hasreleased the latest version of its patient and resource schedulersoftware, CardioSchedule.

CT angiography depicts a higher rate of myocardial bridging thanconventional coronary angiography. In addition, the depth—not thelength—of the tunneled segment significantly correlated with thepercentage of systolic compression, a novel finding, according toinvestigators from University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.

Michael A. Mussallem, chairman and CEO of Edwards Lifesciences, waselected to a two-year term as chairman of the board of directors of theAdvanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed).

Medical professionals should use the same software for comparing andanalyzing diagnostic heart images taken from different time periods andlaboratories to ensure accuracy, according to a collaborative studypublished in the January-February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust has selected Agfa HealthCare to provide PACS, RIS and cardiology solutions.

A multiple radiotracer investigational study conducted at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle shows that PET technology may beefficacious in determining the potential for adverse outcomes inpatients with congestive heart failure (CHF).