Transition from planar to SPECT V/Q scintigraphy: Rationale, practicalities, and challenges

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 397-407

  Roach, Paul J ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^a   Schembri, Geoffrey P ^a   Thomas, Paul A ^b  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON 81M; MACROSALB TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNEGAS; XENON 133;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOB EXPERIENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WORK;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 77957744247     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2010.07.004     Document Type: Review

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