Cardiac magnetic resonance, or CMR, imaging is essentially an MRI for your heart. Using powerful magnets, it creates pictures of the coronary arteries and the heart. During this procedure, you’re placed in a chamber and surrounded by a magnetic field. The atoms that comprise the tissues in your body respond to the magnetic force, producing […]
Cardiac CT
A Cardiac CT scan combines x-rays of thin cross-sections of your heart in order to create a 3D image. A contrast dye is injected, and you are placed onto a table that gradually moves you through a CT machine. While you travel through the machine, a rotating x-ray tube takes the images of your heart. […]