Huntsville / Alabama / United States
The Heart Center serves as North Alabamas leading center for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart and blood vessels. The center delivers the most comprehensive patient care, utilizing state-of-the-art medical technologies. The Heart Center serves the region through fully staffed offices in Huntsville and Decatur as well as outreach locations located throughout northern Alabama and southern Tennessee. The Heart Center has installed the most sophisticated cardiac imaging system at its Huntsville, Tenn. location. A Siemens multipoint 64-Slice CT Scanner, the "Super Scanner" has been online since 2005 and provides non-invasive 3-D images of the heart and blood vessels. The Heart Center, one of the nations leading private cardiology practices, has opened a national training site for cardiologists, physicians, technologists and other health care professionals. The program is designed to provide physicians with ACC Level 2 knowledge of Cardiac CT interpretation and is done in collaboration with TeraRecon, Inc. and Siemens Medical.
