Preferential location of acute pulmonary thromboembolism induced consolidative opacities: assessment with respiratory gated perfusion spect-ct fusion images

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-474

  Zaki, Mohammed ^a   Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Yamashita, Tomio ^a   Shimizu, Kensaku ^a   Seto, Aska ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Image fusion; Pulmonary perfusion; Pulmonary thromboembolism; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFARCTION; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; RADIOACTIVITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18144368095     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200505000-00012     Document Type: Article

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