Human-observer receiver-operating-characteristic evaluation of attenuation, scatter, and resolution compensation strategies for 99mTc myocardial perfusion imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1725-1734

  Narayanan, Manoj V ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Hendrik Pretorius, P ^a   Dahlberg, Seth T ^a   Spencer, Frederick ^a   Simon, Ellen ^a   Ewald, Eric ^a   Healy, Edward ^a   MacNaught, Kirk ^a   Leppo, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation compensation; Cardiac SPECT; Ordered subset expectation maximization; Scatter compensation; Transmission imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM 153; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART; MALE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROC CURVE; SCINTISCANNING;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0642284593     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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