Comparison between 180° and 360° acquisition arcs with and without correction by CT-based attenuation maps in normal hearts at rest

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-119

  Apostolopoulos, Dimitris J ^a   Spyridonidis, Trifon ^a   Skouras, Theodoros ^a   Giannakenas, Costas ^a   Savvopoulos, Christos ^a   Vassilakos, Pavlos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acquisition arc; Attenuation correction; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ADD ON THERAPY; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HYBRID; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; PHANTOM; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349089031     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f28409     Document Type: Article

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