JENKINTOWN, Pa., Oct. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Adler Institute for Advanced Imaging and KDK Scientific, the leading independent clinical and research imaging facility in the Greater Philadelphia region, are excited to announce the expansion of their existing Cardiac PET/CT imaging services, with the installation of a dedicated superconducting cyclotron for the manufacture and production of N-13 ammonia, the optimal imaging agent for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Quantitative Myocardial Blood Flow and Myocardial Flow Reserve. Now, thanks to advances in miniaturization and technology, cyclotrons can be installed on site, enabling use of short-lived imaging agents that cannot be shipped even short distances. Adler Imaging is able to offer increased speed and access for cardiac PET/CT scanning on demand. Adler Imaging is one of only five sites nationwide to offer this latest advancement in outpatient cardiac imaging to patients and their doctors in their convenient outpatient office in Jenkintown.

According to Medical Director Lee P. Adler, MD, "Novel quantitative information available only through Cardiac PET/CT improves risk stratification, creating an opportunity for a paradigm shift in the diagnosis and management of patients with known or suspected cardiac diseases including both coronary artery disease and commonly underdiagnosed microvascular disease. The advantages of this procedure to a patient are that it reduces radiation exposure, cuts down on the number of tests necessary for accurate diagnosis and takes dramatically less time than other traditional diagnostic procedures. PET/CT scans combined with MBF and CFR are a strong independent predictor of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). The ability to diagnosis disease and stratify risk decades before traditional diagnostic techniques ever could can now lead to much earlier intervention and treatment of a patient's heart disease, delaying or reversing the progression of cardiac pathology and improving patient care across communities. The regular availability in the outpatient clinic of previously difficult or impossible to obtain radiotracers will bring substantial benefits to the community."

Adler Imaging and KDK Scientific have been on the cutting edge of the advances made over the past sixteen years in the accurate diagnosis of cancer, dementia and heart disease, practicing the highest levels of academic radiology in a community setting. Dr. Lee Adler's pioneering research in PET, PET/CT and cardiac MRI and his training in applied mathematics and mathematical modeling uniquely positioned him to bring this state of the art technology to an outpatient setting. "We are literally practicing the highest level academic radiology in a community setting," said Adler.

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