1. Without physical corrections impacts the performance of myocardial blood flow quantitation with multi-pinhole CZT-SPECT
Rongzheng MA ; Meng WANG ; Zongyao ZHANG ; Kai HAN ; Hailong ZHANG ; Lei WANG ; Bailing HSU ; Wei FANG
Chinese Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2019;39(12):720-725
Objective:
To investigate the impact on myocardial blood flow (MBF) quantitation with multi-pinhole cadmium zinc telluride (CZT)-SPECT with or without partial physical corrections.
Methods:
A total of 30 patients (18 males, 12 females; age: (63±9) years) with suspected or known coronary heart diseases who underwent dynamic SPECT from July 2018 to January 2019 in Fuwai Hospital were enrolled. Images were reconstructed using different corrections: no correction (NC), partial corrections ((noise reduction (NR), NR+ scatter correction (SC), NR+ SC+ resolution recovery (RR)), NR+ SC+ RR+ attenuation correction (AC; total corrections, TC). Kinetic modeling integrated one-tissue two-compartment model while using index of fitting quality (