Ventilation/Perfusion SPECT - A New Challenge for Detection of Pulmonary Embolism. Can Multi Detector Computed Tomography Replace Lung Scintigraphy?
ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy (V/P-SCAN) was the procedure of choice for studying patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) until the prospective evaluation of V/P imaging in the study known as PIOPED I revealed high number of non diagnostic findings. This has challenged development of computed tomography (CT) during 1990s. Since beginning of 2000, multidetector CT (MDCT) is widely appl