Accuracy and reproducibility of absolute quantification of myocardial focal tracer uptake from molecularly targeted SPECT/CT: A canine validation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 453-460

  Liu, Yi Hwa ^a   Sahul, Zakir ^a   Weyman, Christopher A ^a   Dione, Donald P ^a   Dobrucki, Wawrzyniec L ^a   Mekkaoui, Choukri ^a   Brennan, Matthew P ^a   Ryder, William J ^a   Sinusas, Albert J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual isotope imaging; Hot spot quantification; Molecularly targeted cardiac imaging; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOACTIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; HEART; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952777554     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.082214     Document Type: Article

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