Yale Researchers Use Gamma Medica-Ideas FLEX Pre-Clinical Imaging System To Study Heart Disease

Northridge, CA - A team of Yale researchers is finding new ways to study heart disease using a Gamma Medica-Ideas FLEX Pre-Clinical imaging system.

The research team published its most recent findings in the November 15 edition of the prestigious scientific journal Circulation. The team used the powerful combination of nuclear medicine (SPECT) and x-ray (CT) imaging technologies found in the FLEX imaging system to study molecular events that take place as damaged cells in the heart try to repair themselves after a heart attack. As these events are better understood, new therapies can be developed to help heart attack victims recover.

"The combination of SPECT and CT imaging in a single system gives us an important tool as we seek to gain further understanding of the molecular steps leading to the repair of the heart following a heart attack," said Dr. Albert Sinusas, leader of the research team and Professor of Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale University School of Medicine.

SOURCE: Gamma Medica-Ideas