Coronary calcium score scan-based attenuation correction in cardiovascular PET imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 780-787

  Ghafariana, Pardis ^a,d   Aghamiria, Seyed Mahmoud Reza ^a   Ay, Mohammad Reza ^b,c,d   Fallahid, Babak ^d   Rahmimh, Arman ^h   Schindlerf, Thomas H ^f   Ratibe, Osman ^e   Zaidi, Habib ^e,g  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine   (Iran)

^c Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering ^*  (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^f Cardiovascular Center   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Calcium scoring; Cardiac PET CT; Quantification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 77956880473     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32833c3117     Document Type: Article

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