TIME.com: How New Heart-Scanning Technology Could Save Your Life -- Sep. 05, 2005 -- Page 1
(Recommended by Paulo Schvartzman [paulos@terra.com.br])
More and more, doctors are diagnosing coronary disease without any invasive tests whatever
By CHRISTINE GORMAN, ALICE PARKimprovements in CT (for computed tomography) scanning, which uses highly specialized X-ray machines to take multiple, finely layered pictures of the heart and surrounding blood vessels. Sophisticated computer programs sort the data to generate amazingly detailed, three-dimensional images like the ones that alerted Fackelmann's doctors to his hidden heart problem. Advances in other techniques like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) have astonished physicians with the clarity of details now available to them on the inner workings of the heart.
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