The value of registration correction in the attenuation correction of myocardial SPECT studies using low resolution computed tomography images

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 843-852

  Tonge, Christine M ^a   Ellul, Gordon ^a   Pandit, Manish ^a   Lawson, Richard S ^a   Shields, Robert A ^a   Arumugam, Parthiban ^a   Prescott, Mary C ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Image artifacts; Image fusion; Myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; X RAY;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33749505068     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000239483.69027.23     Document Type: Article

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