Comparison of SSS and SRS calculated from normal databases provided by QPS and 4D-MSPECT manufacturers and from identical institutional normals

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 311-318

  Knollmann, Daniela ^a   Knebel, Ingrid ^a   Koch, Karl Christian ^a   Gebhard, Michael ^a   Krohn, Thomas ^a   Buell, Ulrich ^a   Schaefer, Wolfgang M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D MSPECT; Myocardial perfusion SPECT; Normal databases; QPS; SSS SRS

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE PERFUSION SPECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUMMED REST SCORE; SUMMED STRESS SCORE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 38349170353     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0600-5     Document Type: Article

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