Motion-frozen myocardial perfusion SPECT improves detection of coronary artery disease in obese patients

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1075-1079

  Suzuki, Yasuyuki ^a   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Wolak, Arik ^a   Ohba, Muneo ^a   Suzuki, Shoji ^a   Ling, De Yang ^a   Germano, Guido ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Gated SPECT; Image registration; Image warping; Motion correction; Myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STENOSIS; SUPINE POSITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; OBESITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 46749084307     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.050997     Document Type: Article

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