New approach to quantification of molecularly targeted radiotracer uptake from hybrid cardiac SPECT/CT: Methodology and validation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2175-2181

  Li, Shimin ^a   Sinusas, Albert J ^a   Dobrucki, Lawrence W ^a   Liu, Yi Hwa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Hot spot quantification; Molecular cardiac imaging; Small animal validation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; MARACICLATIDE; MARACICLATIDE TC 99M; VITRONECTIN RECEPTOR; TRACER;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CT SPECT SCANNER; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ERROR; EXTRACARDIAC RADIOACTIVITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART WEIGHT; HYBRID CARDIAC MICRO SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULARLY TARGETED RADIOTRACER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL VOLUME ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREND STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT; HEART; HEART VENTRICLE; HOT SPOT QUANTIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CARDIAC IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SMALL-ANIMAL VALIDATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; PROCEDURES;

CT; HOT SPOT QUANTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CARDIAC IMAGING; SMALL-ANIMAL VALIDATION; SPECT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84893383497     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.123208     Document Type: Article

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