Semiqualitative visual and quantitative morphometric evaluations of reduced scan time and wide-beam reconstruction in rest-gated stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 233-239

  Basso, Danny ^a   Passmore, Gregory ^b   Holman, Michael ^a   Rogers, Ward ^a   Walters, Leslie ^a   Zecchin, Thomas ^a   Butler, Jayme ^a  

^a Cardiac Imaging of Augusta   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtered backprojection; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Wide beam reconstruction

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTION; PARAMETER; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS; SYSTOLE; WIDE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; REST; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73249115178     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.109.063644     Document Type: Article

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