SPECT attenuation artifacts in normal and overweight persons: Insights from a retrospective comparison of Rb-82 positron emission tomography and TI-201 SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1019-1023

  Freedman, Nanette ^a   Schechter, David ^a   Klein, Martine ^a   Marciano, Rami ^a   Rozenman, Yoseph ^a   Chisin, Roland ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Myocardial Imaging; Obesity; Positron Emission Tomography; SPECT

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; BODY WEIGHT; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033661702     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200012000-00014     Document Type: Article

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