Abstract
In part because of aging equipment and reduced reimbursement for imaging services in the last several years, nuclear cardiologists who remain in private practice face challenges in maintaining high quality and in reducing radiation exposure to patients. We review patient-centered approaches and affordable software solutions employed in our practice combined with supine-prone myocardial perfusion imaging to achieve increased interpretive confidence with reduced radiation exposure to patients.
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Abbreviations
- AC:
-
Attenuation correction
- CAD:
-
Coronary artery disease
- LV:
-
Left ventricle
- mCi:
-
Millicuries
- MPI:
-
Myocardial perfusion imaging
- mSv:
-
Millisievert
- MHVA:
-
Midwest Heart and Vascular Associates
- PET:
-
Positron emission tomography
- SPECT:
-
Single-photon emission-computed tomography
- WBR:
-
Wide-beam iterative reconstruction
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All editorial decisions for this article, including selection of reviewers and the final decision, were made by guest editor Andrew J. Einstein, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (in Radiology), Columbia University.
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Bloom, S.A., Meyers, K. Reducing radiation to patients and improving image quality in a real-world nuclear cardiology laboratory. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 24, 1871–1877 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-017-0851-x
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