Impact of point spread function modeling and time-of-flight on myocardial blood flow and myocardial flow reserve measurements for rubidium-82 cardiac PET

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 467-474

  Armstrong, Ian S ^a   Tonge, Christine M ^a   Arumugam, Parthiban ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basic science; coronary blood flow; image reconstruction; PET CT imaging

Indexed keywords

RUBIDIUM 82; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RUBIDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; MYOCARDIAL FLOW RESERVE; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY ELDERLY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901652196     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-014-9858-8     Document Type: Article

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