Processamento de imagens cintilográficas, aplicado à reorientação 3D, para avaliação de perfusão miocárdica no diagnóstico da doença arterial coronariana.

Abstract

The increase in incidence of coronary artery disease, which affects part of the world population, has intensified advances in nuclear medicine as a means of prevention and diagnosis of this disease. The myocardial scintigraphy technique SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography), associated with the electrocardiogram, enables evaluating both function and perfusion of the heart muscle. The main objective of this study is to apply techniques of digital image processing to segment and reorient automatically the 3D images of sick patients, generated by a gamma camera. The results obtained were compared to those ones produced by a manual technique and the effectiveness of the proposed automatic method was confirmed.