Clinical ResearchCardiac ImagingAgreement of Visual Estimation of Coronary Artery Calcium From Low-Dose CT Attenuation Correction Scans in Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT With Standard Agatston Score
Cardiac Imaging
Paper presented in part at ACC.09, March 30, 2009, and at ICNC9, May 12, 2009.
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Key Words
coronary calcium
hybrid imaging
PET
SPECT
Abbreviations and Acronyms
AS
Agatston score
CAC
coronary artery calcium
CI
confidence interval
CT
computed tomography
CTAC
computed tomography attenuation correction
ECG
electrocardiogram
LAD
left anterior descending
MPI
myocardial perfusion imaging
PET
positron emission tomography
SPECT
single-photon emission computed tomography
VECAC
visually estimated coronary artery calcium
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Dr. Einstein was supported by a National Institutes of Health K12 institutional career development award(5KL2 RR024157), by the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Scholars Program, and by the Lewis Katz Cardiovascular Research Prize for a Young Investigator; and has received research funding from Spectrum Dynamics. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships to disclose.
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