Erschienen in:
01.04.2018 | Editorial
Each Nuclear Cardiology lab should have its own lower limit of normal for functional parameters: True or False?
verfasst von:
Ahmed Aaty, MD, Alia Abd Al Fattah, MD, FASNC, Adel Hassan Allam, MD, FASNC
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 2/2018
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Excerpt
In the field of nuclear cardiology we have three imaging modalities to measure ventricular function: first-pass radionuclide angiography (FPRNA), equilibrium gated radionuclide angiography (ERNA), and ECG-gated myocardial perfusion imaging SPECT (GSPECT) or PET studies.
1 GSPECT was introduced in the 1980s and is considered an ideal technique for combined evaluation of myocardial perfusion and left ventricular function from a single study.
2 Automation of the image processing and quantification has made this technique practical and highly reproducible. In patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease, gating enhances the diagnostic and prognostic capability of myocardial perfusion imaging and provides incremental information over the perfusion data.
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