Lifetest Atlanta, using the EBT C300 scanner, offers the heart scan as the premier method of cardiac risk assessment. EBT scans at speeds of up to 10 times faster than conventional CT scanners, allowing precise imaging and mapping of a beating heart without blurring and without the need for medication.
According to the American Heart Association, the EBT C300 available exclusively at Lifetest Atlanta Imaging Center, is the non-invasive "gold standard" for determining the developement and extent of plaque in the arteries. The scan is easy and painless. In fact the entire study can be completed in the time it takes you to hold a single breath.
H. Thomas Hight, MD
Dr. Hight is a graduate of Auburn University and received his medical degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham. He completed his internship at the UT/BMH program in Memphis, and his internal medicine residency at BMH. While working asa a general internist in an endocrinology group, Dr. Hight served as Clinical Instructor in the Division of Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Center for the Health Sciences. Dr. Hight’s focus on preventing cardiovascular events was forged while working as a general internist in a cardiology group in Marietta, Georgia. He currently practices internal medicine in Towne Lake and serves as the Medical Director of LifeTest Atlanta.
Lifetest Atlanta's state of the art facility provides testing for Cardiovascular Disease, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Osteoporosis using the most up-to-the-minute technology.
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