Intravascular ultrasound, or IVUS, assists in diagnosing coronary artery disease. It creates a motion picture of the inside of your coronary arteries using high-frequency sound saves. This is performed in the cardiac cath lab, where a device called a transducer is attached to a catheter and introduced to your heart through an artery. The transducer […]
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Cardiac CT
A Cardiac CT scan combines x-rays of thin cross-sections of your heart in order to create a 3D image. A contrast dye is injected, and you are placed onto a table that gradually moves you through a CT machine. While you travel through the machine, a rotating x-ray tube takes the images of your heart. […]