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Although PCARD results in a quantitative summary of cardiac function, the user may sometimes want to investigate and visualize the results in more detail. If he has licensed the image fusion option (PFUS) and/or the 3D option (P3D), he has versatile tools available which can be readily employed as outlined below.
Fusion Display of all Data Sets
During processing, PCARD calculates different types of data in the area of the heart. All of this data together with the VOIs can directly be loaded into the image fusion tool by the 
button. This tool has numerous flexible visualization options which are illustrated by the two examples below. Please refer to the User's Guide of the PMOD fusion tool to learn about the full capabilites.
The illustration below shows how the dynamic images can be fused with the myocardium information. By playing a movie of the dynamic images over the acquisition duration the appearance and washout of the tracer can be observed and patient motion be detected.
Instead of fusing two images, the tool can also be switched to display three images in parallel, as illustrated below.
