Soft tissue attenuation patterns in stress myocardial perfusion SPECT images: A comparison between supine and upright acquisition systems

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 281-290

  Chawla, David ^a   Rahaby, Mouyyad ^b   Amin, Amit P ^b   Vashistha, Raj ^b   Alyousef, Tareq ^b   Martinez, Hector X ^c   Doukky, Rami ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^c John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation and scatter correction; Image artifacts; Instrumentation: SPECT; Myocardial perfusion imaging: SPECT; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE ATTENUATION; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79958082735     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9336-x     Document Type: Article

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