Relation between lung perfusion defects and intravascular clots in acute pulmonary thromboembolism: Assessment with breath-hold SPECT-CT pulmonary angiography fusion images

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 472-480

  Suga, Kazuyoshi ^a   Yasuhiko, Kawakami ^a   Iwanaga, Hideyuki ^b   Tokuda, Osamu ^b   Matsunaga, Naofumi ^b  

^a St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary thromboembolism; Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA); Fusion images; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KETONES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM; BREATH-HOLD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (CTPA); FUSION IMAGES; FUSION IMAGING; INTRAVASCULAR; LUNG PERFUSION; PERFUSION DEFECTS; PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SPECT-CT; TOMOGRAPHIC; TRACKING SYSTEMS;

DEFECTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49049122205     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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