Attenuation correction of myocardial SPECT by scatter-photopeak window method in normal subjects

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 501-506

  Okuda, Koichi ^a,d   Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Motomura, Nobutoku ^b   Kubota, Masahiro ^b   Yamaki, Noriyasu ^c   Maeda, Hisato ^c   Matsuo, Shinro ^a   Kinuya, Seigo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Myocardial perfusion imaging; Non X ray based attenuation correction; SPECT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 70349576614     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0258-0     Document Type: Article

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