Beacon Bioscience, Inc.

The purpose of this study is to determine how well perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is able to detect certain heart abnormalities, such as a coronary artery narrowing.
To this purpose, a conventional MR contrast medium (Gd-DTPA-BMA) will be used during an adenosine infusion (an approved substance which enlarges the arteries of the heart, so that the blood flow to the heart muscle increases). This magnetic resonance imaging technique will be compared with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a well-established technique to detect this heart abnormalities.
Both, cardiac MR and SPECT will be compared with invasive coronary angiography, a technique which directly visualized the heart vessels and narrowings of these (=standard of reference).