Soft tissue attenuation patterns associated with supine acquisition SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: A descriptive study

Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Doukky, Rami ^a   Rahaby, Mouyyad ^b   Alyousef, Tareq ^b   Vashistha, Raj ^b   Chawla, Dave ^a   Amin, Amit P ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Interpretation; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Soft tissue attenuation; Spect; Spect acquisition; Supine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR ATTENUATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR ATTENUATION; LATERAL ATTENUATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE ATTENUATION; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX CIRCUMFERENCE; THORAX WALL;

EID: 84860690221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18741924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874192401206010033     Document Type: Article

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