Changes in the appearance of attenuation artefacts due to change in posture in myocardial perfusion imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 441-447

  Tonge, Christine M ^a   Armstrong, Ian S ^a   Arumugam, Parthiban ^a   James, Jacqueline M ^a   Al Bahrani, Ghada I ^a   Lawson, Richard S ^a   Shields, Robert A ^a   Prescott, Mary C ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Posture; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SEAT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION;

ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PERFUSION; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41949100418     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f5d2ab     Document Type: Article

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