A comparison of the image quality of full-time myocardial perfusion SPECT vs wide beam reconstruction half-time and half-dose SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 273-280

  DePuey, E Gordon ^a   Bommireddipalli, Srinivas ^a   Clark, John ^a   Leykekhman, Anna ^a   Thompson, Linda B ^a   Friedman, Marvin ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Image processing; Instrumentation: SPECT; Iterative reconstruction; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX CIRCUMFERENCE; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79958118269     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9340-9     Document Type: Article

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