Coronary calcium score scans for attenuation correction of quantitative PET/CT 13N-ammonia myocardial perfusion imaging

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 517-521

  Burkhard, Nina ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Burger, Irene A ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Valenta, Ines ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Coronary calcium score; Myocardial blood flow; PET

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMMONIA; CALCIUM; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77949261567     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1271-1     Document Type: Article

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