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Abstract

“Hot” artifacts affecting the chest wall can result from “contamination” due to radiopharmaceutical extravasation at the injection site, splatter from blood, urine or injectate, or nearby radioactive sources (such as another patient on the treadmill) detected by the gamma camera. Brown adipose tissue is avid for MPI radiopharmaceuticals and may be present in the supraclavicular regions. “Cold” attenuation artifacts can result from superficial jewelry or implantable devices (e.g., pacemakers), or the patient’s arms positioned alongside the chest wall during image acquisition.

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Department of Radiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    M. Elizabeth Oates

  2. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Gill Heart Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    Vincent L. Sorrell

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Oates, M.E., Sorrell, V.L. (2017). Chest Wall. In: Myocardial Perfusion Imaging - Beyond the Left Ventricle. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25436-4_7

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