Yale researchers use preclinical imaging system to study heart disease
A team of researchers at
Yale University School of Medicine
(New Haven, Conn) is finding new ways to study heart disease using the Flex Pre-Clinical imaging system from
Gamma Medica-Ideas
(Northridge, Calif). Using the combination of SPECT and CT technologies found in the Flex system, the team is studying 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
Albert Sinusas, MD, leader of the research team and professor of medicine and diagnostic radiology at Yale University School of Medicine.
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