Feasibility of myocardial perfusion imaging with half the radiation dose using ordered-subset expectation maximization with resolution recovery software

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 704-712

  Zafrir, Nile ^a,b   Solodky, Alejandro ^a,b   Ben Shlomo, Avi ^c   Mats, Israel ^a,b   Nevzorov, Roman ^a,b   Battler, Alexander ^a,b   Gutstein, Ariel ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Image Quality; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Radiation dose reduction; Spect

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSIMETRY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INJECTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; ORDERED SUBSET EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION WITH RESOLUTION RECOVERY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REST; SEX RATIO;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY WEIGHT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SOFTWARE; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84865075557     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-012-9552-7     Document Type: Article

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