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- Title
Did we solve soft tissue (breast) attenuation?
- Authors
Henzlova, Milena J.; Duvall, W. Lane
- Abstract
10.1007/s12350-009-9137-2 8 Mannarino T, Assante R, Ricciardi C, Zampella E, Nappi C, Gaudieri V. Head-to-head comparison of diagnostic accuracy of stress-only myocardial perfusion imaging with conventional and cadmium-zinc telluride single-photon emission computed tomography in women with suspected coronary artery disease. See related article, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-019-01789-7 Amazingly, in spite of the arrival of newer imaging methods (stress echocardiography, coronary CTA, cardiac MRI), cardiac SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) remains the most commonly used noninvasive test for detection of obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease (CAD). The presence of breast implants at times even precludes meaningful evaluation of myocardial perfusion by SPECT imaging because of the significant attenuation artifact created.
- Subjects
SINGLE-photon emission computed tomography; CORONARY artery disease
- Publication
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 3, p898
- ISSN
1071-3581
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s12350-019-01870-1