Authors: Prem Soman
Publish Date: 2013/08/01
Volume: 20, Issue: 5, Pages: 703-704
Abstract
Simona BenHaim Venkatesh L Murthy Christopher Breault Rayjanah Allie Arkadiusz Sitek Nathaniel Roth Jolene Fantony Stephen C Moore MiAe Park Marie Kijewski Athar Haroon Piotr Slomka Kjell Erlandsson Rafael Baavour Yoel Zilberstien Jamshed Bomanji Marcelo F Di CarliFlow quantification adds diagnostic and prognostic value to relative myocardial perfusion imaging MPI but has been primarily explored with PET because of technical limitations of SPECT The newer SPECT cameras with solidstate detectors have much higher detector sensitivity and allow rapid imaging These investigators evaluated the feasibility of dynamic tomographic SPECT imaging and quantification of a retention index to describe global and regional myocardial perfusion reserves
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