Kelly L. Moutray

TL;DR: In a large population of matched pharmacologic stress patients, myocardial perfusion PET was superior to SPECT in image quality, interpretive certainty, and diagnostic accuracy.

TL;DR: Attenuation correction applied to studies with stress-only Tc-99m ECG-gated single photon emission computed tomography images significantly increases the ability to interpret studies as definitely normal or abnormal and reduces the need for rest imaging.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that electrocardiography-gated attenuation-corrected Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging improves specificity compared with electrocardsiology- gated non-attenuation-Corrected SPECTmyocardial perfume imaging, especially in patients with BMI of 30 or greater.