Effects of misalignment between transmission and emission scans on attenuation-corrected cardiac SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 411-416

  Matsunari, Ichiro ^b   Böning, Guido ^b   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^b   Kosa, Istvan ^b   Nekolla, Stephan G ^b   Ficaro, Edward P ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Emission scans; Misalignment; SPECT; Transmission

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 2642676018     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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