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Article: Imatron Ultrafast CT Scanner non-invasively estimates total coronary artery plaque.
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- October 26, 1995
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1995-- Imatron Inc. (NASDAQ: IMAT) announced the publication of a landmark paper in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association.
In this paper, John Rumberger, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic compared calcification measurements by Imatron's Electron Beam Tomography Scanner with microscopic analysis of post-mortem coronary artery cross-sections.
Their findings showed that coronary artery calcium measurements were highly correlated with total atherosclerotic plaque area not only for the whole heart but also for each separate coronary artery. Calcification in the individual ...