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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Harry Bishop, Bridgeport, WV (US);
Stanislaw Majewski, Yorktown, VA (US);
Marc M. Umeno, Henderson, NV (US);
NeoMed Technologies, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the present invention relates to screening patients for an early stage of coronary artery disease. According to this method, a patient is screened based on the time-activity curve for a radioactive tracer passing through a left ventricle region of the patient's body. According to another aspect of the invention, an array of gamma particle detectors is employed to obtain data for a region of interest that is larger than and encompasses a left ventricle region of the patient's body. An analysis of the data identifies the subset of the region of interest that corresponds to the left ventricle region. According to a further aspect of the present invention, a second technique is employed to locate the left ventricle region. A still further aspect of the present invention relates to obtaining images of a patient's heart using a high temporal resolution gamma camera.