Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging with a cadmium-zinc-telluride detector technique: Optimized protocol for scan time reduction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-51

  Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Katz, Ruth ^b   Brueckner, Michael ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Burger, Irene A ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Valenta, Ines ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Treyer, Valerie ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cadmium zinc telluride detector; Clinical cardiology; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT; Ultrafast

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADMIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROCOMPUTERS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PERFUSION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TELLURIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ZINC;

EID: 75149152483     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.065532     Document Type: Article

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