Soft tissue attenuation patterns in stress myocardial perfusion SPECT images: a comparison between supine and upright acquisition systems
Autor: | David Chawla, Amit P. Amin, Rami Doukky, Hector X. Martinez, Tareq Alyousef, Mouyyad Rahaby, Raj Vashistha |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male Supine position Patient positioning Perfusion scanning Single-photon emission computed tomography Patient Positioning Body Mass Index medicine Supine Position Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Aged Retrospective Studies Tomography Emission-Computed Single-Photon medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Attenuation Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Soft tissue Middle Aged Cross-Sectional Studies Female Tomography Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Nuclear medicine Perfusion |
Zdroj: | Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. 18(2) |
ISSN: | 1532-6551 |
Popis: | Soft tissue attenuation patterns and their interaction with body habitus and gender in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)-myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) of upright patient-position acquisition systems are not well described. In a retrospective cross-sectional study, we compared the prevalence and patterns of soft tissue attenuation in two groups of normal SPECT-MPI studies acquired by supine (n = 263) vs upright (n = 212) acquisition systems. Attenuation patterns observed in the study population were: anterior (22.3%), inferior (51.6%) and lateral (18.1%). Anterior attenuation was significantly less in those imaged upright (6.1% vs 35.4%), P |
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