Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute : Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Clinical Trials 

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 Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Clinical Trials   

D-SPECT® vs. A-SPECT: 
A comparison between High Speed D-SPECT® and Dual-Detector Anger Camera (A-SPECT) Myocardial Nuclear Imaging for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease

Sponsored by Spectrum Dynamics

This research study will compare the images (pictures of the heart) that are acquired during a nuclear stress test using two different cameras.  The cameras that will be compared are the investigational camera device, called the D-SPECT® camera, and currently available camera devices, called Anger scintillation cameras (A-SPECT) cameras.

Principal Investigator:   Warren Janowitz, MD. 
Sub-Investigator:  Jack Ziffer, MD







Baptist Health Articles

02.02.2012 Barry T. Katzen, M.D., Receives Prestigious Award For Physician Excellence
01.18.2012 Heart to Heart on Health: Screenings and Life-Saving Information
01.11.2012 Charles J. Kropke Named to Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute Foundation Board of Directors
01.04.2012 Karel Kutner Foti Named to Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute Foundation Board of Directors
06.29.2010 Guilherme Dabus, M.D., Joins Baptist Hospital Neuroscience Center and Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute As Interventional Neuroradiologist
06.01.2010 Dr. James Benenati Named President of the Society of Interventional Radiology
03.25.2010 Live Webcast from Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute to Show Uterine Fibroid Embolization
03.03.2010 NIH Study Finds Carotid Stents Equal Surgery in Preventing Strokes
02.19.2010 Clinton’s Stents a ‘Teaching Moment’ about Heart Disease
02.08.2010 Let’s Embrace Living Festival, Feb. 27, Celebrates Health and Fitness
09.30.2008 New Treatment to Prevent Strokes
09.30.2008 About Aortic Aneurysms
09.29.2008 Ricardo C. Cury, M.D., Named Medical Director of Cardiac MR and CT at Baptist Hospital and Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute
09.29.2008 Italo Linfante, M.D., Named Medical Director of Interventional Neuroradiology for Baptist Hospital Neuroscience Center and Baptist Cardiac & Vascular
11.06.2007 Barry T. Katzen, M.D., honored with Career Achievement Award