Directions and magnitudes of misregistration of CT attenuation-corrected myocardial perfusion studies: Incidence, impact on image quality, and guidance for reregistration

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1471-1478

  Kennedy, John A ^a   Israel, Ora ^a,b   Frenkel, Alex ^a  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Misregistration; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 69449099513     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.062141     Document Type: Article

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