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Over the past three decades, radionuclide myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) has become established as the main functional cardiac imaging technique for ischemic heart disease. It is currently appropriate for all aspects of detecting and managing is-chemic heart disease, including diagnosis, risk assessment and stratification, assess-ment of myocardial viability, and evaluation of left ventricular function. The purpose of this article was to review recent trends in nuclear cardiology practice, excluding posi-tron emission tomography. The past few years have brought several rapid develop-ments that have increased photon sensitivity in nuclear cardiology scanner hardware. Additionally, software applying new methods of single photon emission tomography (SPECT) reconstruction on conventional and dedicated systems has preserved or even improved SPECT image quality with lower count statistics. On the other hand, much interest has been shown in lowering the radiation dose by the stakeholders of MPS. Key Words: Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT; Radiation This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licens