Quantitative myocardial perfusion PET combined with coronary anatomy derived from CT angiography: Validation of a new fusion and visualisation software

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 182-188

  Fricke, Harald ^a   Elsner, Andreas ^b   Weise, Reiner ^a   Bolte, Matthias ^b   Hoff, Jörg van den ^c   Burchert, Wolfgang ^a   Domik, Gitta ^b   Fricke, Eva ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Visualization and Image Processing   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiac PET; Coronary artery disease; CT angiography; quantitative perfusion measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 68149163718     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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