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ReviewJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2017

Reducing radiation to patients and improving image quality in a real-world nuclear cardiology laboratory.

Stephen A Bloom, Karen Meyers

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Review in Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Deep learning, another important tool for improving acquisition efficiency in SPECT MPI Imaging.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2021
    Article
  3. The way to the heart is through the stomach; PPI's, aspirin, and gastric radiotracer activity.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2021
    Article
  4. Good drivers: Achieving dose reduction across a health care system through implementation of multiple radiation-sparing practices.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2020
    Article
  5. Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Guidelines: Instrumentation, Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2018
    Review
  6. The Private Practice Corner: A new column in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2017
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stephen A Bloom, 5701 W. 119th Street, Suite 430, Overland Park, KS, 66209, USA. sbloomks@gmail.com.
Karen Meyers, 5701 W. 119th Street, Suite 430, Overland Park, KS, 66209, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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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HumansMyocardial Perfusion ImagingPatient-Centered CareRadiation ExposureSoftwareTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photonlow radiation nuclear stress testingmore confident interpretationprivate cardiologistprone imagingWide beam iterative software

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