Cardiac Imaging

Cardiac Imaging Services & Specialities

• Transthoracic Echocardiography

  Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) uses sound waves to create computerized outlines of your heart and its attached blood vessels. The probe with a transducer is placed on your chest. We use TTE to check your heart’s chambers, valves, pumping and relaxation function, and blood vessels for abnormalities and any extra fluid building up around your heart.

• Transesophageal Echocardiography

  Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) uses sound waves and is a probe with a transducer inserted down the esophagus, allowing for a clearer image of the heart. It is especially useful in people who may have an infection involving the heart valves or a blood clot within the heart.

• Exercise Stress Echocardiography

  Exercise stress echocardiography uses sound waves to create computerized outlines of your heart during exercise. It shows us how your heart works under stress and helps us monitor for coronary artery disease and other heart conditions. We perform this test using a treadmill or a bike. The benefit of a recumbent bike is that it allows us to get better quality echo images while you are exercising and assess your pulmonary pressures more accurately.

• 3D & Strain Echocardiography

  A 3D echocardiography captures three-dimensional pictures of the heart structures and allows us to analyze structural abnormalities of your heart with greater accuracy. Strain echocardiography uses speckle tracking technology and allows us to obtain more accurate and predictive information about your heart pumping function.

• Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

  A dobutamine stress echocardiogram (DSE) can be performed if you are unable to exercise. We inject dobutamine to make your heart beat fast and mimic the effects of exercise on the heart. This test shows us how your heart works under stress and helps us monitor various heart conditions.

• Mobile Echo & Vascular Services

  Aside from performing cardiac imaging tests in our facilities, we travel to remote locations with all the equipment needed for echocardiography and other tests and offer screening for various heart and vascular conditions.

• Nuclear Stress Testing

  Nuclear stress testing is a form of imaging performed by injecting a small amount of a radioactive substance (called a tracer or radiopharmaceutical) into the bloodstream. Your blood vessels and heart absorb the tracer, making them more visible in images. We then use a special camera to take pictures of your blood flow in and around the heart.

• Cardiac Computed Tomography

  A cardiac computed tomography (CT) scan utilizes multiple X-rays coming from different angles to produce high-quality, three-dimensional (3D) images of your heart, along with great vessels and surrounding structures. It can be used with or without contrast to visualize structural abnormalities of your heart.

  We also perform coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) to visualize your coronary blood vessels and assess the coronary calcium score.

• Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan utilizes radio waves and magnets to create images of your heart chambers, valves, and muscles. We use this to show the contractile function of your heart and the movement of blood through it. It shows us the structure of your heart, its functional capacities, and the presence or absence of scar or other abnormalities of your heart muscle.