A clinical comparison between traditional planar V/Q images and planar images generated from SPECT V/Q scintigraphy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 323-330

  Harris, Benjamin ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^a   Roach, Paul J ^a   Schembri, Geoffrey P ^a   HoShon, Ivan ^a   Chicco, Peter ^b   Bailey, Elizabeth ^b   King, Gregory G ^b  

^a Departments of Respiratory Medicine   (Australia)

^b WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Image processing; Pulmonary embolism; Single photon emission computed tomography; V Q

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; TECHNEGAS; TECHNEGAS TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 43149115878     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f4a240     Document Type: Article

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