Conclusions
MPI has weathered many challenges over the decades, and, with advances such as gated SPECT acquisition, technetium radiotracers, and attenuation correction software, it has overcome many of its shortcomings to remain a cornerstone of noninvasive cardiac imaging, which has high diagnostic accuracy in women.14
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Naidoo, V.V. Review of gated SPECT imaging in women with suspected coronary heart disease. J Nucl Cardiol 13, 474–479 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.06.133
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