Quantitative analysis of myocardial perfusion SPECT anatomically guided by coregistered 64-slice coronary CT angiography

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1621-1630

  Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Cheng, Victor Y ^a   Dey, Damini ^a,b   Woo, Jonghye ^a   Ramesh, Amit ^a   Van Kriekinge, Serge ^a,b   Suzuki, Yasuzuki ^a   Elad, Yaron ^c   Karlsberg, Ronald ^c   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b   Germano, Guido ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; CT angiography; Image fusion; Image quantification; Image registration; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70349973564     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.063982     Document Type: Article

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