Now new method to diagnose diseases of liver and gallbladder is available. Recently the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new software package to assist with the clinical diagnosis of liver and gallbladder diseases.
The system was developed by the physician husband-and-wife team of Gerbail T. and Shakuntala Krishnamurthy of Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro. The FDA approval means, for the first time, nuclear medicine departments will have access to standardized imaging of liver and gallbladder functions. The "Krishnamurthy Hepatobiliary Software" reads and analyzes images from a "gamma camera" for an in-depth analysis.
Medical institutions that participated in the initial validation of the system include Tuality Community Hospital, UCLA Medical, Stanford Medical and Kings College in London.