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. 2021 Jul 1;62(7):1022-1024.
doi: 10.2967/jnumed.120.261263. Epub 2021 May 7.

V/Q SPECT/CT in the Time of COVID-19: Changing the Order to Improve Safety Without Sacrificing Accuracy

Wolfgang M Schaefer  1 , D Knollmann, Philipp T Meyer
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V/Q SPECT/CT in the Time of COVID-19: Changing the Order to Improve Safety Without Sacrificing Accuracy

Wolfgang M Schaefer et al. J Nucl Med. .
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FIGURE 1.
FIGURE 1.
V/Q SPECT/CT scan of 80-y-old woman. (A) Slice-by-slice comparison of ventilation and perfusion SPECT showing mismatched findings in both lungs (arrows). Image noise is higher in perfusion images because of lower administered activity in inverted-workflow protocol. (B) Combining SPECT data with low-dose CT proves pulmonary embolism in absence of structural alterations.
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