Improved diagnostic accuracy of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography with CT attenuation correction

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology : Official Publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Jei-Yie HuangYen-Wen Wu

Abstract

The benefits of attenuation correction (AC) in technetium-99m myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) have been well established. However, the value of thallium (Tl-201) AC and routine computed tomography AC (CTAC) were less well established. The aims of this study were to evaluate the diagnostic performance of thallium (Tl-201) MPI with additional CTAC and to determine which participants would benefit most. A total of 108 consecutive patients who underwent Tl-201 MPI and received coronary angiography within 3 months were enrolled. Diagnostic performance was determined by sensitivity, specificity, and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Subgroup analyses were performed using gender and obesity. CTAC improved the area under the curve (0.84 vs. 0.77, P = 0.037 at patient level), primarily due to a significant improvement in specificity (0.78 vs. 0.57, P = 0.013) and no significant difference in sensitivity (0.79 vs. 0.82, P = 0.75). In subgroup analysis, CTAC was most helpful in obese subjects, men, and especially right coronary artery lesions. CTAC significantly improved diagnostic performance primarily by increasing the specificity, and the improvements were significantly greater in obese patients and male patients. Th...Continue Reading

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