Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen‘s pioneering approach to cognitive function and mental health centers on SPECT scans of the brain, which he uses to analyze physiological activity instead of a traditional ...

An Oxford University study has shown that a specialised SPECT-CT scan using a molecular tracer detected endometriosis in most trial participants, offering hope for faster, less invasive diagnosis.

Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienced a significant increase in the detection of severe ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...

"Typically, when a patient presents with chest pain and the [SPECT] test result is normal, we tell them everything looks fine, but this may not be the case," says John Mahmarian, M.D., a cardiologist ...