Single-composite image display of information from tomographic myocardial perfusion studies

Tomography has the general advantage of improving spatial resolution in a direction perpendicular to the tomographic sections. However, visualizing the size, shape, and relative position of a lesion depicted in multiple tomograms can be difficult. The authors have developed computer software which permits the single-composite display of information contained in multiple tomographic sections from a thallium-201 myocardial perfusion study. The display also allows identification of left ventricular myocardial areas as normal, reversibly ischemic, or irreversibly ischemic and quantitates the per cent of myocardium in each category.