0.001). Prone imaging resulted in a significantly higher specificity for RCA disease
compared to supine imaging (90% vs. 66%, p< 0.05) with an improvement in accuracy from …

Although acquisition of 99mTc-sestamibi myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) with the
patient in the prone position is commonly used to minimize attenuation artifacts, the impact …

Prone Decubitus: A Solution to Inferior Wall Attenuation in Thaffium-20 1 Myocardial
Tomography Page 1 TechnicalNotes Prone Decubitus: A Solution to Inferior Wall …

Background. Myocardial perfusion imaging has demonstrated a limited sensitivity as a
means of accurately identifying left main (LM) coronary disease. Because regional …

Incorrect axis selection may:(a) foreshorten normal yen tricularwalls, creating apparentbasal
defects;(b) displace the apical †œdimple, ― creating an apparentperi-apicalper fusion …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-eight consecutive patients referred for clinical Tl-201
imaging were included in this study. Six of 28 patients were subjects with atypical chest pain …

The most seriouscontroversyregardingthe applicationof transaxialSPECTtechnologyto
201fl@@ onimaging is the ch@ ce between 3600@ with 180Âdata samplingtechniques …

Background To determine the interpretability of gated thallium-201 perfusion SPECT
compared with that performed by use of technetium-99m sestamibi (MIBI), 33 patients with …

Background There have been limited data regarding the value of gated single photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for the …

A lack of specificity for myocardial perfusion imaging has been widely reported, mostly
related to false-positive defects on the inferior wall. The application of depth-dependent …