Attenuation correction in cardiac SPECT: The boy who cried wolf?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-35

  Germano, Guido ^a,b   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BODY POSITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY;

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

EID: 33846607304     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.12.317     Document Type: Review

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