Evaluation of an attenuation correction method for thallium-201 myocardial perfusion tomographic imaging of patients with low likelihood of coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-377

  Chouraqui, Pierre ^a,b   Livschitz, Shy ^a,b   Sharir, Tali ^a,b   Wainer, Naor ^c   Wilk, Michael ^c   Moalem, Israel ^a,b   Baron, Jack ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Elgems Research and Development   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Simultaneous emission transmission computed tomography; Thallium 201 myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031714457     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(98)90142-8     Document Type: Article

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