Cardiac dedicated ultrafast SPECT cameras: New designs and clinical implications

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-217

  Garcia, Ernest V ^a   Faber, Tracy L ^a   Esteves, Fabio P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera; Cardiac; Cardiac dedicated ultrafast SPECT cameras

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

CAMERA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOLID STATE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79851487935     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.081323     Document Type: Review

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