The Adler Institute for Advanced Imaging, a radiology practice and imaging center based in Jenkintown, recently became the fifth site in America to install a superconducting cyclotron, a machine that enables increased speed and access for cardiac PET/CT scanning on demand.

The superconducting cyclotron allows 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, which used to have to occupy over 7000 square feet, can now be installed on site. This enables the use of short-lived imaging agents that cannot be shipped even short distances.

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 years 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.”

For more information about Adler Imaging or PET/CT MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING WITH N-13 AMMONIA, please call 215-935-0030 or visit https://www.adlerimaging.com.