Correction for respiration artefacts in myocardial perfusion SPECT is more effective when reconstructions supporting collimator detector response compensation are applied

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 949-955

  Kovalski, Gil ^a,c   Keidar, Zohar ^a,b   Frenkel, Alex ^a,b   Israel, Ora ^a,b   Azhari, Haim ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (Israel)

Author keywords

List mode; Motion; MPI SPECT; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 72249097320     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9148-z     Document Type: Article

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