Radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is among the most commonly performed
diagnostic tests in cardiology. Although the diagnostic and prognostic applications of …

Background The purpose of the present study was to assess the diagnostic performance of
attenuation-corrected (AC) stress 99m Tc-sestamibi cardiac single-photon emission …

Quantitative software for the analysis and review of myocardial perfusion emission computed
tomography images is an indispensable tool in the nuclear physician’s evaluation of …

Despite advancements in technologies, non-uniform soft tissue attenuation still affects the
diagnostic accuracy of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial …

Protocols for the various nuclear cardiology single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
acquisition studies are presented in the following pages (Tables 1-6). For each of …

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 …

Planar equilibrium radionuclide angiography (ERNA) is used to determine global and
regional measures of ventricular function (primarily left ventricular [LV] function) at rest and/or …

PURPOSE: To quantify cardiac radiation therapy (RT) exposure using sensitive measures of
cardiac dysfunction; and to correlate dysfunction with heart doses, in the setting of adjuvant …

The effect of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on regional cardiac adrenergic function was
studied in 27 patients mean ± standard deviation 10 ± 4 days after AMI. Regional adrenergk …

Objective: Coronary physiology in infants with congenital heart disease remains unclear.
Our objective was to better understand coronary physiology in infants with congenital heart …