Early and delayed technetium-99m-tetrofosmin myocardial SPECT compared in normal volunteers

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1622-1626

  Matsunari, Ichiro ^a   Tanishima, Yoshinobu ^b   Taki, Junichi ^b   Ono, Kouichi ^b   Nishide, Hiroko ^b   Fujino, Susumu ^b   Matoba, Munetaka ^b   Ichiyanagi, Kenji ^b   Tonami, Norihisa ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

liver heart artifact; myocardial SPECT; technetium 99m tetrofosmin

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029794332     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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