Apical thinning: real or artefact?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 382-389

  Purser, Nicola J ^a,b   Armstrong, Ian S ^a,b   Williams, Heather A ^a,b   Tonge, Christine M ^a,b   Lawson, Richard S ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apical thinning; Attenuation artefacts; Myocardial perfusion; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHANTOM; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 43149093377     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f4a22e     Document Type: Article

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