Myocardial perfusion imaging with a solid-state camera: Simulation of a very low dose imaging protocol

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-379

  Nakazato, Ryo ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b   Hayes, Sean W ^a   Fish, Mathews ^c   Padgett, Richard ^c   Xu, Yuan ^a   Lemley, Mark ^c   Baavour, Rafael ^d   Roth, Nathaniel ^d   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Oregon Heart and Vascular Institute   (Canada)

^d Spectrum Dynamics   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cadmium zinc telluride; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Quantification; Radiation dose; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAMERA; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84874840049     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.112.110601     Document Type: Article

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