How long have nuclear cardiology procedures been available?
As described in ASNC’s training document titled The Knowledge Base for Nuclear Cardiology Training, the basic principles underlying the field of nuclear cardiology were described in the 1920s, but the clinical development and widespread use of these techniques did not take place until the mid-1970s. Since that time, it has become one of the older and most established technologies to image the heart. With over six million procedures performed annually in the United States, physicians rely on this test to evaluate a large number of their patients.
