Low-dose quantitative myocardial blood flow imaging using 15O-water and PET without attenuation correction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 575-580

  Lubberink, Mark ^a   Harms, Hendrik J ^a   Halbmeijer, Rick ^a   De Haan, Stefan ^a   Knaapen, Paul ^a   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

15O water; Cardiology (basic technical); Coronary flow reserve; Myocardial blood flow; PET; PET CT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; WATER O 15; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; ARTIFACT; CHEMISTRY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 77950955080     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.070748     Document Type: Article

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