X-ray-based attenuation correction of myocardial perfusion scans: practical feasibility and diagnostic impact

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 853-858

  Grüning, Thomas ^a,b   Brogsitter, Claudia ^a   Khonsari, Mehrdad ^a   Jones, Ivor W ^a   Ormsby, Paul L ^a   Burchert, Wolfgang ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Myocardial perfusion scan; X rays

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BODY MASS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX CIRCUMFERENCE; X RAY;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33749538411     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000243379.41754.cb     Document Type: Article

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