Quantitative diagnostic performance of myocardial perfusion SPECT with attenuation correction in women

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 915-922

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

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Sacred Heart Medical Center Eugene   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Gender; Myocardial perfusion; Quantification; Women

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 44849088065     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.049387     Document Type: Article

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