Reduced isotope dose and imaging time with a high-efficiency CZT SPECT camera

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 847-857

  Duvall, W Lane ^a   Croft, Lori B ^a   Ginsberg, Eric S ^b   Einstein, Andrew J ^c   Guma, Krista A ^a   George, Titus ^a   Henzlova, Milena J ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic and prognostic application; Image quality; Myocardial perfusion imaging: SPECT; Radiopharmaceuticals

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CADMIUM; DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; REGADENOSON; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REST; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CADMIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TELLURIUM; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ZINC;

EID: 83255192159     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9379-7     Document Type: Article

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