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SPECT Myocardial Blood Flow Quantitation Concludes Equivocal Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Studies to Increase

Lung-Ching Chen1, Chih-Yuan Lin, Ing-Jou Chen

  • 1From the *Division of Cardiology, Shin Kong Wu-Ho Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; †School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ‡Department of Medical Physics Research, Bailing Cloud Biomedical Technologies Innovation, Taipei, Taiwan; §Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shin Kong Wu-Ho Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ∥School of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan; and ¶Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri.

Clinical Nuclear Medicine
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Dynamic SPECT/CT myocardial blood flow quantitation aids coronary artery disease detection. This technique offers valuable clinical applications for diagnosis and management, especially where PET tracers are unavailable.

Area of Science:

  • Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Radiology

Background:

  • Myocardial blood flow (MBF) quantitation using dynamic SPECT/CT is emerging as a valuable tool.
  • It offers an alternative for coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis in regions lacking myocardial perfusion PET tracers.
  • This technique enhances the detection and assessment of CAD.

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