Effect of reconstruction algorithms on myocardial blood flow measurement with 13N-ammonia PET

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1259-1265

  Chen, Grace P ^a   Branch, Kelley R ^a   Alessio, Adam M ^a   Pham, Pam ^a   Tabibiazar, Ramin ^b   Kinahan, Paul ^a   Caldwell, James H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial blood flow; PET; Reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AMMONIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 34547807607     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.038232     Document Type: Article

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