Two-position supine/prone myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) imaging improves visual inter-observer correlation and agreement

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 703-711

  Arsanjani, Reza ^a   Hayes, Sean W ^a   Fish, Mathews ^b   Shalev, Aryeh ^a   Nakanishi, Rine ^a   Thomson, Louise E J ^a   Friedman, John D ^a   Germano, Guido ^a,c   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Slomka, Piotr ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Sacred Heart Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; Inter observer agreement; myocardial perfusion SPECT; supine prone SPECT; visual summed stress score

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT SCANNER; SUMMED STRESS SCORE; SUPINE POSITION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84905113368     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-014-9895-3     Document Type: Article

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