… E.Gordon DePuey … 3) Patients agreed to participate and signed an informed consent
approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal. Patients were excluded from …

METHODS Weprospectivelyperformedgated@ Tc-sestamibiSPECTon 551 consecutive
patientsreferredto St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospi tal for evaluationof suspectedor known coronary …

… E. Gordon DePuey … The MBF polar map is estimated using an assumed tracer-specific
unidirectional extraction fraction dependent on MBF (EF = 1 − e −PS/MBF , where PS is the …

To evaluate the short-term effects of an intervention that consists of stress management
training and dietary changes in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD), we compared the …

The purpose of this document is to update the “ASNC Imaging Guidelines for Nuclear
Cardiology Procedures: Single photon-emission computed tomography” 1 in several areas in …

… ,weobtainedcorrela tions similar to those reported by DePuey et al. (1). The SEE … Using
geometric approximations with manually drawn two-dimensional contours, DePuey et …

… The current report describes the approach to optimization of the Tc-99m sestamibi
SPECT studies undertaken as a combined effort of the nuclear cardiology sections of Emory …

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

… Acquisition protocols for coronary artery calcium scoring and MPI are described in part E of
this section. Coronary artery calcium scoring and MPI images are interpreted separately and …

… Such misalignmentcan create artifacts that resemble anterior and inferior perfusion de fects
(Fig. 4). Fortunately, when this type of motion arti fact is detected, it can often be corrected by …