Half-time SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with attenuation correction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 554-562

  Ali, Iftikhar ^a   Ruddy, Terrence D ^a,b   Almgrahi, Abdulaziz ^a   Anstett, Frank G ^c   Wells, R Glenn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Resolution recovery; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART DILATATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC DILATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 63849314304     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.058362     Document Type: Article

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