Impact of attenuation correction by simultaneous emission/transmission tomography on visual assessment of 201T1 myocardial perfusion images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1301-1309

  Vidal, Renaud ^b   Buvat, Irène ^b   Darcourt, Jacques ^a   Migneco, Octave ^b   Desvignes, Philippe ^b   Baudouy, Marcel ^b   Bussière, Françoise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

201T1 cardiac SPECT; Attenuation correction; Coronary artery disease; Receiver operating characteristic analysis

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 0032841130     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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