Hybrid SPECT/CT for attenuation correction of stress myocardial perfusion imaging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 344-349

  Huang, Rui ^a   Li, Fanglan ^a   Zhao, Zhen ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Ou, Xiaohong ^a   Tian, Rong ^a   Li, Lin ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hybrid imaging; attenuation correction; myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UPTAKE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955050544     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318212c525     Document Type: Article

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