Myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary calcium scoring with a two-slice SPECT/CT system: Can the attenuation map be calculated from the calcium scoring CT scan?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1069-1076

  Wenning, Christian ^a   Rahbar, Kambiz ^a   Vrachimis, Alexis ^a   Schober, Otmar ^a   Schäfers, Michael ^a   Stegger, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Calcium scoring; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL SCARRING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879504580     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-013-2360-8     Document Type: Article

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