Heart Muscle Imaging for Myocardial Infarction

In this procedure, the provider performs planar nuclear imaging of heart muscle after the injection of a radioactive substance that accumulates in the area of damaged myocardium. The test helps to identify and locate the damage a recent myocardial infarction might have caused. Myocardial infarction, or MI, is the irreversible damage of the myocardium or heart muscle due to ischemia caused by a blood clot. Choose a location to see hospital-reported price summaries. This page does not show national, sample, or aggregate pricing.