Wide-beam reconstruction half-time SPECT improves diagnostic certainty and preserves normalcy and accuracy: A quantitative perfusion analysis

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-61

  Druz, Regina S ^a   Phillips, Lawrence M ^b   Chugkowski, Michelle ^a   Boutis, Loukas ^a   Rutkin, Bruce ^a   Katz, Stanley ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic and prognostic application; image processing; image quality; image reconstruction; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REST; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUMMED STRESS SCORE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WIDE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79951681440     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9304-5     Document Type: Article

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