“Same-patient processing” for multiple cardiac SPECT studies. 2. Improving quantification repeatability

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1442-1453

  Germano, Guido ^a,c   Kavanagh, Paul B ^a   Ruddy, Terrence D ^b   Wells, R Glenn ^b   Xu, Yuan ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a,c   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gated SPECT; image processing; Myocardial perfusion imaging; software and algorithms; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT SCANNER; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ETIOLOGY; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84991082246     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-016-0674-1     Document Type: Article

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