Feasibility of myocardial perfusion SPECT with prone and half-time imaging

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 386-391

  Gutstein, Ariel ^a   Solodky, Alejandro ^a   Mats, Israel ^a   Nevzorov, Roman ^a   Belzer, Doron ^a   Hasid, Yossef ^a   Battler, Alexander ^a   Zafrir, Nili ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

half time; iterative reconstruction; myocardial perfusion; prone; single photon emission tomography; soft tissue attenuation; supine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMOKING; SUPINE POSITION; TIME;

BODY WEIGHT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79955026927     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328343d68e     Document Type: Article

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