Prevalence of noncardiac findings on low dose 64-slice computed tomography used for attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion imaging with SPECT

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 859-865

  Husmann, Lars ^a   Tatsugami, Fuminari ^a   Aepli, Ursina ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Valenta, Ines ^a   Veit Haibach, Patrick ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Burkhard, Nina ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Computed tomography; Incidental findings; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CYST; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CYST; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 72349098851     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-009-9490-x     Document Type: Article

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