Small field-of-view cardiac SPECT can be implemented on hybrid SPECT/CT platforms where data acquisition and reconstruction are guided by CT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 718-726

  Sabondjian, Eric ^a,b,c   Stodilka, Robert Z ^a,b,c   Belhocine, Tarik ^d   King, Martin E ^d   Wisenberg, Gerald ^a,b,c,d   Prato, Frank S ^a,b,c  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Local tomography; Projection truncation; Single photon emission computed tomography computed tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68249154926     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32832eabec     Document Type: Article

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