title: SPECT Myocardial Blood Flow Quantitation Concludes Equivocal Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Studies to Increase Diagnostic Benefits.
abstract: Recently, myocardial blood flow quantitation with dynamic SPECT/CT has been reported to enhance the detection of coronary artery disease in human. This advance has created important clinical applications to coronary artery disease diagnosis and management for areas where myocardial perfusion PET tracers are not available. We present 2 clinical cases that undergone a combined test of 1-day rest/dipyridamole-stress dynamic SPECT and ECG-gated myocardial perfusion SPECT scans using an integrated imaging protocol and demonstrate that flow parameters are capable to conclude equivocal myocardial perfusion SPECT studies, therefore increasing diagnostic benefits to add value in making clinical decisions.
authors.affiliation: From 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.
authors.forename: Lung-Ching
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chih-Yuan
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Ing-Jou
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chi-Tai
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Ku
authors.forename: Yen-Kung
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Bailing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D004176:Dipyridamole / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; D012146:Rest; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000187:drug effects; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D004176:Dipyridamole