Physician PET Landing

OCD Outpatient Cardiovascular Diagnostics · For Referring Physicians · Stony Brook, NY

Cardiac PET with absolute flow quantification, on Long Island.

Same-week scheduling, 24-hour reporting, and prior authorization handled by our team. Your patient is interpreted on-site by a board-certified cardiologist — never outsourced.

01 The clinical difference

SPECT can miss it. PET catches it.

Absolute quantitation of myocardial blood flow (AQMBF) is the differentiated capability of cardiac PET. Where a traditional SPECT exam reports relative differences between walls, PET reports actual blood flow values in mL/min/g — surfacing balanced multi-vessel disease that SPECT routinely reads as normal.

A representative case

Adapted from Driessen et al. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2017). CC BY 4.0.

The clinical implication: when your patient’s symptoms point to disease but their SPECT reads normal, PET with AQMBF resolves the diagnosis. We perform every PET study with quantitative flow analysis as the default — not an optional add-on.

02 What we offer

Comprehensive cardiac and vascular diagnostics.

Cardiac PET is our anchor service, but the center is built for the full diagnostic workup. If you have a complex case, you can order a single comprehensive evaluation rather than coordinating across multiple facilities.

03 How to refer

We make referring simple.

Two methods, one phone number, no menu trees.

04 Common indications

When cardiac PET changes the answer.

Cardiac PET is the right modality when SPECT image quality will be degraded, when balanced disease is suspected, when microvascular dysfunction is in the differential, or when quantitative flow data will change clinical management.

• →Inconclusive treadmill or SPECT in a symptomatic patient
• →BMI greater than 30 — SPECT image quality degraded by attenuation
• →Female patients with significant breast tissue or implants — SPECT artifact
• →Diabetes — high silent ischemia risk, balanced disease pattern
• →Microvascular disease suspected in symptomatic patient with normal angiography
• →Pre-operative cardiac clearance when treadmill testing isn’t feasible
• →Post-stent or post-CABG functional assessment
• →Known CAD where flow quantification will guide medical vs. interventional management
• →Heart failure workup — ischemic vs. non-ischemic etiology

05 Direct contact

One number, one team, one answer.

Speak with our scheduling team directly

Refer with confidence

Send us your patient. We’ll send back a thorough read.

One phone call connects you to a real scheduler. We handle the authorization, schedule within the week, interpret on-site, and return your patient to you with a complete report within 24 hours.