It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or prevention of disease …

Over the past two decades there has been substantial growth in the applications of nuclear
cardiology to both clinical practice and research. The use of nuclear imaging techniques in …

A comprehensive method is described for quantification of the relative 3-dimensional
distribution of TI-201 in the myocardium, following stress and subsequent washout. The …

Objective: To determine the discriminant accuracy of exercise thallium-201 myocardial
perfusion scintigraphy for the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with known or suspected …

On exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy, it has been noted that the size of the left ventricle is
sometimes larger on the immediate poststress image than on the 4 hour redistribution …

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a method for quantifying the uptake,
redistribution, and washout of thallium-201 (201Tl) obtained with rotational tomography. This …

The American CoIlege of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on
Assessment of Cardiovascular Procedures was formed to make recommendations regarding …

One hundred eighty-three men underwent stress-redistribution thallium-201 myocardial
perfusion tomography. After evaluation of various preprocessing filters in a phantom study …

This study validates a new quantitative perfusion SPECT algo rithmforthe assessmentof
myocardialperfusion. The algorithm is not based on slices and providesfully 3 …

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging with/sup 201/Tl or/sup
99m/Tc agent is used to assess the location or the extent of myocardial infarction or …