Automatic detection of coronary artery disease in myocardial perfusion SPECT using image registration and voxel to voxel statistical comparisons

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 785-794

  Peace, R A ^a   Staff, R T ^a   Gemmell, H G ^b   McKiddie, F I ^b   Metcalfe, M J ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Myocardial; Perfusion; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2 BIS(BIS(2 ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2-BIS(BIS(2-ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035991811     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200208000-00013     Document Type: Article

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