Prospective multicenter evaluation of rapid, gated SPECT myocardial perfusion upright imaging

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-357

  Maddahi, Jamshid ^a   Mendez, Ricardo ^a   Mahmarian, John J ^b   Thomas, Gregory ^c   Babla, Hetal ^d   Bai, Chuanyong ^d   Arram, Samia ^d   Maffetone, Peter ^d   Conwell, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Mission Internal Medical Group   (United States)

^d Digirad Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Image processing; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; ALGORITHM; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 68049118726     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9063-3     Document Type: Article

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