SPECT attenuation correction: An essential tool to realize nuclear cardiology's manifest destiny

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-24

  Garcia, Ernest V ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

absolute quantification; attenuation correction; myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M; TRACER;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REIMBURSEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33846598849     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.12.144     Document Type: Article

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