Clinical interpretation standards and quality assurance for the multicenter PET/CT trial rubidium-ARMI

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-64

  Renaud, Jennifer M ^a   Mylonas, Ilias ^a   McArdle, Brian ^a   Dowsley, Taylor ^a   Yip, Kathy ^b   Turcotte, Eric ^c   Guimond, Jean ^d   Trottier, Mikael ^d   Pibarot, Philipe ^d   Maguire, Conor ^e   Lalonde, Lucille ^e   Gulenchyn, Karen ^f   Wisenberg, Gerald ^g   Wells, R Glenn ^a   Ruddy, Terrence ^a   Chow, Benjamin ^a   Beanlands, Rob S B ^a   DeKemp, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b KMH Cardiology and Diagnostic Centres   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Myocardial perfusion imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RUBIDIUM 82; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RUBIDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG COST; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UNIVERSITY; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; STANDARD; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

82RB; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CANADA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84894714081     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.112.117515     Document Type: Article

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