A selection of heirloom tomatoes. Before the industrialization of agriculture, a much wider variety of plant foods were grown for human consumption. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the diversity was huge. Old nursery catalogues were filled with plums, peaches, pears and apples of numerous varieties.
The Multiple Gated Acquisition scan (MUGA) is. a noninvasive tool that creates a moving image of. the beating heart. It is used for assessing the. health of the cardiac ventricles (the heartâs major. pumping chambers).
beating. The scan takes approximately one hour. WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM A MUGA SCAN? Several important features of heart function can be measured from the MUGA scan. If a patient has had a heart attack, or other heart disease, the MUGA scan can localize the portion of the heart muscle that has sustained damage, and assess the degree of damage. Most importantly, the MUGA scan creates an accurate report of how well the