Continuing its commitment to advancing the earlier diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, GE Healthcare has introduced a new application for performing dynamic studies of the heart. Dynamic VUE can help cardiologists detect perfusion defects.

Available on Discovery Dimension Console on the Discovery STE and Discovery VCT, as well as the AW Workstation, physicians can perform qualitative analysis of the heart tissue to better determine the extent of disease and, therefore, select appropriate treatment options. Dynamic VUE will help enable cardiologists to determine the existence of underlying cardiovascular disease as well as quantify the level of disease in the coronary vessels.

"Recent studies have shown that perfusion studies and vessel analysis are a key indicator of cardiovascular disease," said Hadi Moufarrej, global general manager of molecular imaging at GE Healthcare. "The release of Dynamic VUE is an example of GE's commitment to help enable the earlier detection of disease with advanced molecular imaging technology, in both hardware and software."

At the heart of Dynamic VUE is the capability to perform advanced dynamic studies, which allows clinicians to determine the degree of perfusion defects. Combined with the workflow efficient dynamic studies that can be performed on Discovery Dimension Console, Dynamic VUE facilitates the quantitative assessment of myocardial tissue. Enabled with Dynamic VUE, clinicians can perform various analyses including summing over selected temporal windows, extracting multiple region of interests (ROIs) from which the Time Activity Curves (TACs) can be extracted. Scaling and Visualization of the activities and the exportability of TACs Provide unique opportunities for further advanced analysis valuable for early disease detection.

"Dynamic VUE is a great tool for assessing dynamic PET data shortly after it's acquired," said Tim Turkington, PET physicist, Duke University Medical Center. "Absolute blood flow measurements with dynamic cardiac PET and the resulting myocardial flow reserve calculations truly exploit the full power of PET, and it's essential to have tools like Dynamic VUE to fully understanding the data."

The application can perform analyses of dynamic ECG- and also respiratory-gated studies. Exported data analyzed by academic or other third-party tools could facilitate the evaluation of minute capillaries and micro vascular vessel diseases. Dynamic VUE is also applicable to the analysis of brain tissue as well as tumor assessment where the data is acquired dynamically or respiratory-gated in oncology studies.

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