CT-based attenuation correction versus prone imaging to decrease equivocal interpretations of rest/stress Tc-99m tetrofosmin SPECT MPI

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 314-323

  Malkerneker, Dee ^a   Brenner, Reuven ^b   Martin, William H ^a   Sampson, Uchechukwu K A ^a   Feurer, Irene D ^a   Kronenberg, Marvin W ^a   Delbeke, Dominique ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; computed x ray tomography; coronary artery disease; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; SUPINE POSITION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PRONE POSITION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249702267     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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