Does rubidium-82 PET have superior accuracy to SPECT perfusion imaging for the diagnosis of obstructive coronary disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis

BA Mc Ardle, TF Dowsley, RA Dekemp… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of rubidium (Rb)-82
positron emission tomography (PET) for the diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease …

Technological development and advances in single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography

Y Seo, C Mari, BH Hasegawa - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) has
emerged during the past decade as a means of correlating anatomical information from CT …

Comparison of coronary CT angiography, SPECT, PET, and hybrid imaging for diagnosis of ischemic heart disease determined by fractional flow reserve

I Danad, PG Raijmakers, RS Driessen, J Leipsic… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance At present, the choice of noninvasive testing for a diagnosis of significant
coronary artery disease (CAD) is ambiguous, but nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging with …

Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected ischemic heart disease: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association

JH Mieres, M Gulati, N Bairey Merz, DS Berman… - Circulation, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Historically, the focus of the diagnostic evaluation for symptomatic women and men has
been the detection of an obstructive coronary stenosis requiring revascularization (as …

Spect/ct

AK Buck, S Nekolla, S Ziegler, A Beer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
In view of the commercial success of integrated PET/CT scanners, there is an increasing
interest in comparable SPECT/CT systems. SPECT in combination with CT enables a direct …

SNMMI/ASNC/SCCT Guideline for Cardiac SPECT/CT and PET/CT 1.0

S Dorbala, MF Di Carli, D Delbeke… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
Each practice guideline, representing a policy statement by the SNMMI, has undergone a
thorough consensus process in which it has been subjected to extensive review, requiring …

Hybrid cardiac imaging: SPECT/CT and PET/CT. A joint position statement by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), the European Society of …

A Flotats, J Knuuti, M Gutberlet, C Marcassa… - European journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Improvements in software and hardware have enabled the integration of dual imaging
modalities into hybrid systems, which allow combined acquisition of the different data sets …

Myocardial perfusion imaging in women for the evaluation of stable ischemic heart disease—state-of-the-evidence and clinical recommendations

VR Taqueti, S Dorbala, D Wolinsky, B Abbott… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
This document from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology represents an updated
consensus statement on the evidence base of stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) …

Interpretation of SPECT/CT myocardial perfusion images: common artifacts and quality control techniques

RA Dvorak, RKJ Brown, JR Corbett - Radiographics, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Nuclear medicine has long played an important role in the noninvasive evaluation of known
or suspected coronary artery disease. The development of single photon emission …

Attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT: effects of misregistration and value of reregistration

S Goetze, TL Brown, WC Lavely, Z Zhang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
The accuracy of myocardial perfusion SPECT improves with attenuation correction.
Algorithms for attenuation correction in hybrid SPECT/CT systems have the potential for …