Saturday, July 4, 2009

NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY ARTIFACTS

Prone imaging causes an anterior wall divet.
Breasts cause an anterior wall divet.

Fat people or those with high diaphragms have inferior wall divets.
Supine imaging causes inferior wall defects.

LBBB causes a septal defect at higher heart rates. This is why you use adenosine/persantin and do NOT ask the patient to do leg raising or fist squeezing.

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