Recent Trends in Nuclear Cardiology Practice / 전남의대학술지
Chonnam Medical Journal
; : 55-64, 2013.
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ABSTRACT
Over the past three decades, radionuclide myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) has become established as the main functional cardiac imaging technique for ischemic heart disease. It is currently appropriate for all aspects of detecting and managing ischemic heart disease, including diagnosis, risk assessment and stratification, assessment of myocardial viability, and evaluation of left ventricular function. The purpose of this article was to review recent trends in nuclear cardiology practice, excluding positron emission tomography. The past few years have brought several rapid developments that have increased photon sensitivity in nuclear cardiology scanner hardware. Additionally, software applying new methods of single photon emission tomography (SPECT) reconstruction on conventional and dedicated systems has preserved or even improved SPECT image quality with lower count statistics. On the other hand, much interest has been shown in lowering the radiation dose by the stakeholders of MPS.
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Main subject:
Cardiology
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Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
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Ventricular Function, Left
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Myocardial Ischemia
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Risk Assessment
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Positron-Emission Tomography
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Perfusion Imaging
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Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Cardiac Imaging Techniques
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Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Chonnam Medical Journal
Year:
2013
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Article