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Patients Undergo First Doses of New Cardiac PET tracer

DAIC

25, 2025 GE HealthCare has delivered the first patient doses of Flyrcado(flurpiridaz F 18) injection, a unit dose positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (PET MPI) agent for detecting coronary artery disease (CAD), at early adopter imaging centers in the US. tim.hodson Mon, 03/03/2025 - 16:07 Feb.

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AI-CCTA Beats SPECT, Again

CardiacWire

A recent study out of UCLA added to the growing body of evidence supporting AI-assisted CCTA as an alternative to SPECT for diagnosing obstructive coronary artery disease, especially in women. SPECT continues to be a first-line test to diagnose coronary ischemia, often instead of or before invasive coronary angiography.