Main pulmonary artery diameter from attenuation correction CT scans in cardiac SPECT accurately predicts pulmonary hypertension

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 634-641

  Burger, Irene A ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Ghadri, Jelena R ^a   Nkoulou, Rene N ^a   Jenni, Rolf ^a   Russi, Erich W ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

attenuation and scatter correction; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DOBUTAMINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052486049     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9413-9     Document Type: Article

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