Analysis of myocardial perfusion from vasodilator stress computed tomography: Does improvement in image quality by iterative reconstruction lead to improved diagnostic accuracy?

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 238-245

  Bhave, Nicole M ^a   Mor Avi, Victor ^a   Kachenoura, Nadjia ^a,b   Freed, Benjamin H ^a   Vannier, Michael ^a   Dill, Karin ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a   Patel, Amit R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular CT; Multidetector CT; Myocardium; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; REGADENOSON; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY DEVICE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRESS RADIOGRAPH; STRESS RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASODILATATION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASODILATION;

EID: 84902495826     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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