We know it can be worrying when your doctor recommends images be taken to diagnose a heart condition (called cardiac imaging). However, recent advances in cardiac imaging help you get better care, faster. Our expert team works to give you an accurate diagnosis quickly, which means less worry, pain and time spent waiting for the right treatment. A timely heart disease diagnosis may even save your life.

The main objective of cardiac imaging is to diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) and structural heart disease. These diseases affect the arteries, heart valves, heart muscle and other tissues in and around the heart. After diagnosis, we’ll connect you with our heart care team — some of the most experienced heart specialists in the region.

Why Choose Us for Heart Imaging

  • Expertise: Getting the right diagnosis the first time is all about expertise. Our team has decades of experience and performs about 20,000 imaging procedures every year.
  • Personalized approach: We strive to have a doctor at each appointment, instead of an imaging technologist alone. Connecting with you helps us tailor our approach to your unique needs.
  • Integrated care: If you need complex cardiovascular surgery, our imaging experts will be at your side. Our imaging specialists work with surgeons as a team to ensure excellent surgical results, so you get home safer, sooner.
  • Echo accredited: For nearly a decade, we’ve been certified as experts in echocardiography (heart ultrasound) by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC-Echo).
  • Always improving: We’re constantly working to make our services even better for our patients. We have team improvement meetings both quarterly and monthly.
  • Training the next generation: Skilled sonographers (ultrasound technicians) are essential to accurate imaging and diagnosis. We offer one of the only sonographer training programs in the region, and many of our students become part of our team. Further, our cardiology fellowship program trains future generations of cardiologists.

Take the next step: If you’re concerned about your heart health or have symptoms, talk to your primary care physician or cardiologist today.

Conditions We Evaluate

Structural heart diseases, which are problems with the tissues in your heart. These may include:

  • Heart valve issues, including infection of valves (infective endocarditis).
  • Aortic aneurysm, an abnormal bulge in a major blood vessel (aorta).
  • Aortic dissection, a life-threatening tear in an aortic wall.
  • Cardiomyopathies, or heart muscle diseases.
  • Pericardial disease, which affects the tissue surrounding the heart.

Congenital heart diseases (heart defects present from birth), like a hole in the heart (called atrial or ventricular septal defect).

Coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common and deadly heart disease. If you have chest pain, a key first step is evaluation to rule out CAD.

Services We Offer

We offer a variety of imaging choices including echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography (CCT), cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) and nuclear imaging. Selecting the proper technique is essential to finding answers for each patient’s unique situation.

We may use one or more of the following procedures to diagnose your heart condition. We’ll work with you if you have any concerns about a certain procedure.​

Diagnostic Services

What to Expect

Usually, patients first see their cardiologist or primary care doctor for symptoms that might be related to heart disease. Symptoms may include chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations feeling faint, weakness and more. Your doctor will evaluate your symptoms and any risk factors, like family history, high cholesterol levels or abnormal blood pressure. Depending on your unique case, your doctor may recommend heart imaging services at our lab. You’ll find the lab on the fourth floor of the medical center.

Your doctor’s office will contact us to schedule your appointment. Most patients don’t need to do anything special to prepare for their appointment. However, if you’re getting a nuclear heart test you will need to avoid caffeine for 24 hours beforehand.

Diagnosis & Treatment

At your appointment, we’ll help you understand how your heart test will be performed and what to expect afterward. Depending on the tests you need, you may see different members of our team (including cardiologists, cardiac radiologists and sonographers). After the test, you’ll be able to go home the same day — most procedures can be completed in about an hour.

Our team will carefully evaluate the results of your testing to make an accurate diagnosis. We’ll share the results with your doctor and make sure you’re on the best path to treatment. Your doctor will let you know your next steps, including further procedures for diagnosis or treatment.

Follow-Up

Many patients won’t need a follow-up appointment at our lab. In some cases, your physician may recommend regular follow-up imaging services to monitor your condition. 

If your heart condition requires ongoing care, we’ll schedule follow-up appointments to check up on your heart health. No matter what comes next, we’ll be here to work with your care team and guide you to the best possible outcome.

Take the Next Step

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. If you’re concerned about your heart health or have symptoms, talk to your primary care physician or cardiologist today. Detecting heart disease early can improve your treatment options, help you live healthier and even save your life.

Why Choose Us for Heart Imaging

  • Expertise: Getting the right diagnosis the first time is all about expertise. Our team has decades of experience and performs about 20,000 imaging procedures every year.
  • Personalized approach: We strive to have a doctor at each appointment, instead of an imaging technologist alone. Connecting with you helps us tailor our approach to your unique needs.
  • Integrated care: If you need complex cardiovascular surgery, our imaging experts will be at your side. Our imaging specialists work with surgeons as a team to ensure excellent surgical results, so you get home safer, sooner.
  • Echo accredited: For nearly a decade, we’ve been certified as experts in echocardiography (heart ultrasound) by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC-Echo).
  • Always improving: We’re constantly working to make our services even better for our patients. We have team improvement meetings both quarterly and monthly.
  • Training the next generation: Skilled sonographers (ultrasound technicians) are essential to accurate imaging and diagnosis. We offer one of the only sonographer training programs in the region, and many of our students become part of our team. Further, our cardiology fellowship program trains future generations of cardiologists.

Take the next step: If you’re concerned about your heart health or have symptoms, talk to your primary care physician or cardiologist today.

Conditions We Evaluate

Structural heart diseases, which are problems with the tissues in your heart. These may include:

  • Heart valve issues, including infection of valves (infective endocarditis).
  • Aortic aneurysm, an abnormal bulge in a major blood vessel (aorta).
  • Aortic dissection, a life-threatening tear in an aortic wall.
  • Cardiomyopathies, or heart muscle diseases.
  • Pericardial disease, which affects the tissue surrounding the heart.

Congenital heart diseases (heart defects present from birth), like a hole in the heart (called atrial or ventricular septal defect).

Coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common and deadly heart disease. If you have chest pain, a key first step is evaluation to rule out CAD.

Services We Offer

We offer a variety of imaging choices including echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography (CCT), cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) and nuclear imaging. Selecting the proper technique is essential to finding answers for each patient’s unique situation.

We may use one or more of the following procedures to diagnose your heart condition. We’ll work with you if you have any concerns about a certain procedure.​

Diagnostic Services

What to Expect

Usually, patients first see their cardiologist or primary care doctor for symptoms that might be related to heart disease. Symptoms may include chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations feeling faint, weakness and more. Your doctor will evaluate your symptoms and any risk factors, like family history, high cholesterol levels or abnormal blood pressure. Depending on your unique case, your doctor may recommend heart imaging services at our lab. You’ll find the lab on the fourth floor of the medical center.

Your doctor’s office will contact us to schedule your appointment. Most patients don’t need to do anything special to prepare for their appointment. However, if you’re getting a nuclear heart test you will need to avoid caffeine for 24 hours beforehand.

Diagnosis & Treatment

At your appointment, we’ll help you understand how your heart test will be performed and what to expect afterward. Depending on the tests you need, you may see different members of our team (including cardiologists, cardiac radiologists and sonographers). After the test, you’ll be able to go home the same day — most procedures can be completed in about an hour.

Our team will carefully evaluate the results of your testing to make an accurate diagnosis. We’ll share the results with your doctor and make sure you’re on the best path to treatment. Your doctor will let you know your next steps, including further procedures for diagnosis or treatment.

Follow-Up

Many patients won’t need a follow-up appointment at our lab. In some cases, your physician may recommend regular follow-up imaging services to monitor your condition. 

If your heart condition requires ongoing care, we’ll schedule follow-up appointments to check up on your heart health. No matter what comes next, we’ll be here to work with your care team and guide you to the best possible outcome.

Take the Next Step

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. If you’re concerned about your heart health or have symptoms, talk to your primary care physician or cardiologist today. Detecting heart disease early can improve your treatment options, help you live healthier and even save your life.