The reproducibility of time-of-flight PET and conventional PET for the quantification of myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve with 13N-ammonia

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 457-472

  Suda, Masaya ^a,b   Onoguchi, Masahisa ^a   Tomiyama, Takeshi ^b   Ishihara, Keiichi ^b   Takahashi, Naoto ^b   Sakurai, Minoru ^b   Matsumoto, Keiichi ^c   Kumita, Shin ichiro ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

13N ammonia (13N NH3); coronary flow reserve (CFR); Myocardial blood flow (MBF); positron emission tomography (PET); time of flight (TOF)

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; AMMONIA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN-13;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VALIDATION STUDY;

AMMONIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84924940214     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-015-0074-y     Document Type: Article

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