Letter: Myocardial scanning.

Letter: Myocardial infarction and H.G.V. drivers.

Visual letter matching: hemispheric functioning or scanning biases?

Finding two mixed-case letters that share the same name is easier to do when the letters are presented in opposite visual fields than when they are both in the same field. By contrast, finding a match between two same-case letters is easier when they are in the same field. These visual field effects have been attributed to the ability of the corpus callosum to coordinate the work of the cerebra...

Attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion SPECT using sequential transmission - emission scanning with 99mTc [Persain]

Introduction: Nowadays, Imaging of the myocardial perfusion (MPI) using the single photon emission tomography (SPET) in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, especially myocardial ischemia, is of great importance. In contrast to the coronary artery angiography, MPI is non-invasive, less expensive and more physiological. Unfortunately, this image is affected by the some artifacts. Thes...

Letter to the Editor Ventricular myocardial band and Ross operation

I have read with great attention and interest your Editorial [1], since I have the privilege of being one of the believers that the ventricular myocardial band is a fact and not a fiction [2]. With regard to your comments related to the dissection plan used for the Ross operation, in fact during a pulmonary autograft preparation for the Ross operation it becomes quite evident that the pulmonary...

Complementary roles of coronary calcium scanning and myocardial perfusion SPECT.

The assessment of coronary artery calcium (CAC) by electron beam tomography (EBT) or multidetector spiral computed tomography (CT) and the evaluation of myocardial perfusion and function by use of myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (MPS) are both valuable in the noninvasive assessment of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). CAC provides uni...