A novel approach to multipinhole SPECT for myocardial perfusion imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 595-602

  Funk, Tobias ^a,c   Kirch, Dennis L ^b   Koss, John E ^b   Botvinick, Elias ^a   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Western Cardiology Research Inc   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Multipinhole tomography; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT; Technetium

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; SCINTISCANNING;

CORONARY DISEASE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HEART; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33745062316     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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