TY - JOUR
T1 - Combined quantitative supine-prone myocardial perfusion SPECT improves detection of coronary artery disease and normalcy rates in women
AU - Slomka, Piotr J.
AU - Nishina, Hidetaka
AU - Abidov, Aiden
AU - Hayes, Sean W.
AU - Friedman, John D.
AU - Berman, Daniel S.
AU - Germano, Guido
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging (North Billerica, Mass) and Astellas Healthcare (Deerfield, Ill).
PY - 2007/1
Y1 - 2007/1
N2 - Background: We sought to determine the diagnostic performance of a recently developed combined supine-prone quantification algorithm for myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (MPS) for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) in women. Methods and Results: Consecutive MPS scans of women without known CAD and coronary angiography within 3 months of MPS (n = 168) and with a low likelihood of CAD (n = 291) were considered. Total perfusion deficit (TPD) was automatically derived for supine (S-TPD), prone (P-TPD), and combined prone-supine (C-TPD) data sets. The low-likelihood patients were grouped by bra cup size (A/B, n = 102; C, n = 101; and D, n = 88). The areas under the receiver operator characteristic curves for S-TPD, P-TPD, and C-TPD were 0.84 ± 0.03, 0.88 ± 0.03, and 0.90 ± 0.03, respectively. C-TPD had a higher specificity than S-TPD and P-TPD for identification of CAD (stenosis ≥70%) without compromising sensitivity (61%, 76%, and 94% for S-, P-, and C-TPD, respectively; P < .0005 vs S-TPD and P < .05 vs P-TPD). Normalcy rates were higher for C-TPD than for S-TPD or P-TPD. Conclusions: Combined supine-prone quantitative MPS in women yields significantly increased specificity and normalcy rates without compromising sensitivity for the detection of CAD compared with standard analysis.
AB - Background: We sought to determine the diagnostic performance of a recently developed combined supine-prone quantification algorithm for myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (MPS) for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) in women. Methods and Results: Consecutive MPS scans of women without known CAD and coronary angiography within 3 months of MPS (n = 168) and with a low likelihood of CAD (n = 291) were considered. Total perfusion deficit (TPD) was automatically derived for supine (S-TPD), prone (P-TPD), and combined prone-supine (C-TPD) data sets. The low-likelihood patients were grouped by bra cup size (A/B, n = 102; C, n = 101; and D, n = 88). The areas under the receiver operator characteristic curves for S-TPD, P-TPD, and C-TPD were 0.84 ± 0.03, 0.88 ± 0.03, and 0.90 ± 0.03, respectively. C-TPD had a higher specificity than S-TPD and P-TPD for identification of CAD (stenosis ≥70%) without compromising sensitivity (61%, 76%, and 94% for S-, P-, and C-TPD, respectively; P < .0005 vs S-TPD and P < .05 vs P-TPD). Normalcy rates were higher for C-TPD than for S-TPD or P-TPD. Conclusions: Combined supine-prone quantitative MPS in women yields significantly increased specificity and normalcy rates without compromising sensitivity for the detection of CAD compared with standard analysis.
KW - Myocardial perfusion imaging
KW - coronary artery disease
KW - image artifacts
KW - image processing
KW - single photon emission computed tomography
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.10.021
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.10.021
M3 - Article
C2 - 17276305
AN - SCOPUS:33846592815
SN - 1071-3581
VL - 14
SP - 44
EP - 52
JO - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
JF - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
IS - 1
ER -