Artefacts and pitfalls in myocardial perfusion imaging

Abstract

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is a powerful tool in the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease. Radionuclide cardiac perfusion imaging entails a succession of stages, procedures and operations. The procedure involves a multidisciplinary group of operators and several processes from patient preparation to image interpretation. Any of the stages of the procedure is prone to error. It is therefore important to prospectively identify such errors, minimise their occurrence and take necessary action required to ensure that the effect of these fallibilities on the test result is mitigated. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.