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Cardiology: Open Access(COA)

ISSN: 2476-230X | DOI: 10.33140/COA

Impact Factor: 1.85

FMTVDM Quantitative Imaging Replaces Current Qualitative Imaging for Coronary Artery Disease and Cancer, Increasing Diagnostic Accuracy and Providing Patient Specific, Patient-Directed Treatment

Abstract

Richard M Fleming, Matthew R Fleming, Tapan K Chaudhuri, Andrew McKusick

The time for practicing medicine by merely looking at a qualitative picture of someone’s heart, chest or mammogram, or by taking a patients blood sample to measure cholesterol or inflammation levels and then letting the Doctor decide if they think you have heart disease or cancer, has ended. So too has the period of time for treating someone merely based upon mammography (x-rays), CT, MRI, PET, SPECT/planar imaging or any other test that requires your physician to qualitatively interpret what they think they see, and then decide you do or don’t have a medical problem.

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