Research

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Cardiac CT Lab is engaged in various local and national research projects utilizing cardiac CT and our cardiac CT database. For information on any of these projects, please contact Dr. Weigold at 202-877-6177.

• Investigational site for the CATSCAN, SPARC and CT-STAT multi-center trials
• Beta-test site for Philips Healthcare
• Ongoing research in new scanner and software technology, comparative studies with other cardiac imaging modalities and new applications for cardiac CT (e.g. CT-SCAR study of myocardial perfusion/scar imaging)
• Cardiac CT support for MedStar Health Research Institute's Cardiovascular CORE Lab