Automated breath-hold perfusion SPECT/CT fusion images of the lungs

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 455-463

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kawakami, Yasuhiko ^a   Iwanaga, Hideyuki ^b   Tokuda, Osamu ^b   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^b  

^a St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CT; Lung; Lung diseases; Nuclear medicine; Pulmonary perfusion; Pulmonary thromboembolism; SPECT

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREATH HOLDING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547580774     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.1290     Document Type: Article

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