Quantitation of myocardial blood flow and myocardial flow reserve with 99mTc-sestamibi dynamic SPECT/CT to enhance detection of coronary artery disease

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2294-2306

  Hsu, Bailing ^a   Chen, Fu Chung ^b   Wu, Tao Cheng ^c   Huang, Wen Sheng ^d   Hou, Po Nien ^e   Chen, Chien Cheng ^b   Hung, Guang Uei ^e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SHOW CHWAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e CHANG BING SHOW CHWAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^g CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Dynamic SPECT CT; Invasive coronary angiography; Myocardial blood flow quantitation

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CT SPECT SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPECT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MYOCARDIAL FLOW RESERVE; PATIENT HISTORY OF CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROTATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUMMED STRESS SCORE; VERY ELDERLY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING;

CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 84919906647     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-014-2881-9     Document Type: Article

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