Comparative accuracy of CT attenuation-corrected and non-attenuation- corrected SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 332-338

  Sharma, Punit ^a   Patel, Chetan D ^a   Karunanithi, Sellam ^a   Maharjan, Sagar ^a   Malhotra, Arun ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; CT; myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STENOSIS;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858117360     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31823ea16b     Document Type: Article

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