Comparison of the Extent and Severity of Myocardial Perfusion Defects Measured by CT Coronary Angiography and SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1010-1019

  Tamarappoo, Balaji K ^a   Dey, Damini ^a,b   Nakazato, Ryo ^a   Shmilovich, Haim ^a   Smith, Thomas ^c   Cheng, Victor Y ^a,b   Thomson, Louise E J ^a   Hayes, Sean W ^a   Friedman, John D ^a   Germano, Guido ^b   Slomka, Piotr J ^b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a BURNS AND ALLEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; ischemia; myocardial perfusion imaging; single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79952197997     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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