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Spect anterior defect - breast attenuation,what?
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An overlapping: breast can cause an artifact on a normal SPECT that causes a cardiac defect on the scan. The photons are absorbed, or attenuated, by the breast tissue. There is no real abnormality. If that is what it is, the scan is essentially normal.
Answered 6/15/2015
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