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ReviewAnnals of nuclear medicine2016

Normal values and standardization of parameters in nuclear cardiology: Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine working group database.

Kenichi Nakajima, Naoya Matsumoto, Tokuo Kasai, Shinro Matsuo, Keisuke Kiso, Koichi Okuda

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Review in Annals of nuclear medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kenichi NakajimaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, 920-8641, Japan. nakajima@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
Naoya MatsumotoDepartment of Cardiology, Nihon University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Tokuo KasaiDepartment of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Shinro MatsuoDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, 920-8641, Japan.
Keisuke KisoDepartment of Radiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan.
Koichi OkudaDepartment of Physics, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a 2-year project of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine working group activity, normal myocardial imaging databases were accumulated and summarized. Stress-rest with gated and non-gated image sets were accumulated for myocardial perfusion imaging and could be used for perfusion defect scoring and normal left ventricular (LV) function analysis. For single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with multi-focal collimator design, databases of supine and prone positions and computed tomography (CT)-based attenuation correction were created. The CT-based correction provided similar perfusion patterns between genders. In phase analysis of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT, a new approach for analyzing dyssynchrony, normal ranges of parameters for phase bandwidth, standard deviation and entropy were determined in four software programs. Although the results were not interchangeable, dependency on gender, ejection fraction and volumes were common characteristics of these parameters. Standardization of (123)I-MIBG sympathetic imaging was performed regarding heart-to-mediastinum ratio (HMR) using a calibration phantom method. The HMRs from any collimator types could be converted to the value with medium-energy comparable collimators. Appropriate quantification based on common normal databases and standard technology could play a pivotal role for clinical practice and researches.

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Databases, FactualSocieties, MedicalCardiologyHumansJapanNuclear MedicineReference StandardsReference Values123I-Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) quantificationJapanese Society of Nuclear Medicine (JSNM) working groupMyocardial perfusion imagingNormal database

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PMID26897008
PMCPMC4819542

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