PMID: 15347710Sep 7, 2004Paper

Superimposed display of coronary artery on gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine : Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Yoshihiro NishimuraKenya Murase

Abstract

Fusion of images of vascular anatomy and of myocardial perfusion images might be helpful for understanding the relationship between ischemia and the responsible vessels. The aim of this study was to develop a simple means of superimposing the images obtained from coronary angiography and gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. Right and left oblique views from conventional coronary angiography and left ventriculography (LVG) were stored as 512 x 512 x 8-bit digital datasets and combined. We reconstructed images from routine gated myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by using (99m)Tc-tetrofosmin to match the oblique positions between the image from MPI and combined angiographic images. We then generated a 3-dimensional (3D) surface map by using the quantitative gated SPECT (QGS)/quantitative perfusion SPECT (QPS) program. Both the combined angiographic images and the 3D surface map were rescaled and unified by registering the internal landmarks between the 2 images. After subtraction of the LVG image, the coronary angiogram and the 3D surface map were fused into 1 image. All processes were performed with the QGS/QPS program and commercially available graphic software. We applied this method to datasets from a cardiac phantom and from se...Continue Reading

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