Does interdependence between measures of extent and severity of myocardial perfusion defect provided by automatic quantification programs?
The NCAT phantom and the SIMIND Monte Carlo program were shown to be useful in simulating clinical myocardial SPECT studies. The quantification programs gave values of lesion extent that were dependent on the magnitude of the severity. Users should therefore consider this dependence when interpreting results from these programs.
Women with SUI showed worse performance during an endurance test than continent women. It suggests that women have different capacity to perform PFM training. An initial evaluation based on PFM performance would help to define the best individualized PFM training.