Quantitative myocardial-perfusion SPECT: Comparison of three state-of-the-art software packages

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-34

  Wolak, Arik ^a   Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Fish, Mathews B ^b   Lorenzo, Santiago ^c   Acampa, Wanda ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Germano, Guido ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Sacred Heart Medical Center Eugene   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic quantification; coronary artery disease; Myocardial perfusion imaging; software; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38649098815     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.09.020     Document Type: Article

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