Comparative Features of 3 Automated Cardiac SPECT Quantification Packages
| Feature | AutoQUANT + Cedars BPGS | 4D-MSPECT | Emory Cardiac Toolbox | Baylor polar map package |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slices (SAX, VLA, HLA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gated slices | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 3D surfaces, perfusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 3D surfaces, wall motion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| LV volume curve | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| LV SV, LV EF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TID | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar maps, perfusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar maps, perfusion blackout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar maps, reversibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar maps, PDS severity | ✓ | |||
| Polar maps, wall motion | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Polar maps, wall thickening | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Polar maps, zone quantification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Polar maps, zone graphs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Polar maps, zone scoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Polar maps, summed scores | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Coronary artery trees | ✓ | |||
| Gated blood-pool SPECT | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| GBPS, RV | ✓ | |||
| GBPS, isosurfaces | ✓ | |||
| GBPS, polar maps | ✓ | |||
| Results summary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Normal database | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Normal database editor | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Normal database, diff. stress | ✓ | ✓ |
SAX = short axis; VLA = vertical long axis; HLA = horizontal long axis; PDS = perfusion defect size; GBPS = gated blood-pool SPECT; diff. = differential.