Identification of severe and extensive coronary artery disease by automatic measurement of transient ischemic dilation of the left ventricle in dual-isotope myocardial perfusion SPECT

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1612-1620

  Mazzanti, Marco ^a   Germano, Guido ^a   Kiat, Hosen ^a   Kavanagh, Paul B ^a   Alexanderson, Erick ^a   Friedman, John D ^a   Hachamovitch, Rory ^a   Van Train, Kenneth F ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029979052     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(96)00052-6     Document Type: Article

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