Investigation of emission-transmission misalignment artifacts on rubidium-82 cardiac PET with adenosine pharmacologic stress

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 201-208

  Schuster, David M ^a,c   Halkar, Raghuveer K ^a   Esteves, Fabio P ^a   Garcia, Ernest V ^a   Cooke, C David ^a   Syed, Mushabbar A ^a   Bowman, F DuBois ^b   Votaw, John R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Cardiac PET; Rb 82

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; RUBIDIUM 82;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN;

ADENOSINE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; STRESS;

EID: 45849099102     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-008-0139-2     Document Type: Article

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