Clinical results of a novel wide beam reconstruction method for shortening scan time of Tc-99m cardiac SPECT perfusion studies

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 555-565

  Borges Neto, Salvador ^a   Pagnanelli, Robert A ^a   Shaw, Linda K ^a   Honeycutt, Emily ^a   Shwartz, Shuli C ^b   Adams, George L ^a   Coleman, Ralph Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UltraSPECT   (Israel)

Author keywords

filtered backprojection; Single photon emission computed tomography; wide beam reconstruction

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547418771     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.04.022     Document Type: Article

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