Clinical significance of apical thinning after attenuation correction

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-31

  Links, Jonathan M ^a,c   Becker, Lewis C ^a   Anstett, Frank ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical thinning; Attenuation correction; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM 153; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 1242275144     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Dunn RF, Wolff L, Wagner S, Botvinick EH. The inconsistent pattern of thallium defects: a clue to the false positive perfusion scintigram. Am J Cardiol 1981;48:224-32.
2. Iskandrian AS, Verani MS. Exercise Perfusion Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease. In: Nuclear cardiac imaging: principles and applications. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: FA Davis; 1996. p. 84-5.
3. Ficaro EP, Fessler JA, Ackermann RJ, et al. Simultaneous transmission-emission thallium-201 cardiac SPECT: effect of attenuation correction on myocardial tracer distribution. J Nucl Med 1995;36:921-31.
4. Pretorius PH, King MA, Tsui BM, LaCroix KJ, Xia W. A mathematical model of motion of the heart for use in generating source and attenuation maps for simulating emission imaging. Med Phys 1999:26:2323-32.
5. Rigo P, Van Boxem P, Foulon J. et al. Quantitative evaluation of a comprehensive motion, resolution, and attenuation correction program: initial experience. J Nucl Cardiol 1998;5:458-68.
6. Links JM, Becker LC, Rigo P, et al. Combined corrections for attenuation, depth-dependent blur, and motion in cardiac SPECT: a multicenter trial. J Nucl Cardiol 2000;7:414-25.
7. Links JM, DePuey EG, Taillefer R, Becker LC. Attenuation correction and gating synergistically improve the diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion SPECT. J Nucl Cardiol 2002;9: 183-7.
8. Diamond GA, Forrester JS. Analysis of probability as an aid in the clinical diagnosis of coronary-artery disease. N Engl J Med 1979;300:1350-8.
9. Cauvin JC, Boire JY, Maublant JC, et al. Automatic detection of the left ventricular myocardium long axis and center in thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomography. Eur J Nucl Med 1992;19:1032-7.
10. Glantz SA. How to Analyze Rates and Proportions. In: Primer of biostatistics. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 123-6.
11. Corbett JR, Ficaro EP. Attenuation corrected cardiac perfusion SPECT. Curr Opin Cardiol 2000:15:330-6.
12. Hendel RC, Corbett JR, Cullom SJ, et al. The value and practice of attenuation correction for myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging: a joint position statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the Society of Nuclear Medicine. J Nucl Cardiol 2002;9:135-43.
13. Bradfield JWB, Beck G, Vecht RJ. Left ventricular apical thin point. Br Heart J 1977;39:806-9.
14. Galt JR, Garcia EV, Robbins WL. Effects of myocardial wall thickness on SPECT quantification. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 1990;9:144-50.
15. Clausen M, Bice AN, Civelek AC, Hutchins GM, Wagner HN. Circumferential wall thickness measurement of the human left ventricle: reference data for thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography. Am J Cardiol 1986;58:827-31.
16. Clausen M, Civelek AC, Bice AN, et al. Short-axis circumferential profiles of the heart in healthy subjects: comparison of Tl-201 SPECT and two-dimensional echocardiography. Radiology 1988;168:723-6.