Are shades of gray prognostically useful in reporting myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 290-298

  Abidov, Aiden ^a,b,c   Hachamovitch, Rory ^a,b   Hayes, Sean W ^a,b   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Cohen, Ishac ^a,b   Kang, Xingping ^a,b   Yang, Ling De ^a,b   Thomson, Louise ^a,b   Germano, Guido ^a,b   Slomka, Piotr ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image interpretation; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART DISEASE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70350461427     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.815811     Document Type: Article

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