A heart perfusion imaging scan, or myocardial perfusion scan, is a test that tells doctors how well a person’s heart pumps blood. Doctors may use this test when diagnosing the cause of chest pain or ...

Perfusion describes when fluids such as blood and lymph pass through tissue. A perfusionist is a professional who operates machinery when this process requires assistance, such as during heart surgery ...

When you breathe, a certain fraction of your air enters the lungs and blood flows through the capillaries. When this ratio is above or below 0.8, you may have ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. A V ...

A cross-disciplinary research team has, for the first time, successfully applied NIR-II (1,000–3,000 nm) fluorescence video imaging during esophagectomy—a complex surgical procedure involving the ...

Kidneys need to be preserved before transplantation to allow time to match kidney to recipient, to transport and prepare the recipient and kidney, and to implant the kidney. It is important that the ...

Cell culture media specialized for gene therapy production are uniquely designed to support the growth, viability, and productivity of cells used to manufacture gene therapy products, such as viral ...