Physics and Technical Aspects of Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT

Clinical Gated Cardiac SPECT, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 27-45

  Germano, Guido ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beat length acceptance window; Fixed temporal resolution gating; List mode acquisition; Myocardial perfusion; Variable temporal resolution gating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879953854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987520.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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