Estimation of myocardial blood flow for longitudinal studies with13N-labeled ammonia and positron emission tomography

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6 PART I, 1996, Pages 494-507

  DeGrado, Timothy R ^a   Hanson, Michael W ^a   Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Delong, David M ^a   Brezinski, Damian A ^a   Vallée, Jean Paul ^a   Hedlund, Laurence W ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Cobb, Frederick ^a   Sullivan, Martin J ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compartmental modeling; Myocardial blood flow; N 13 ammonia; PET

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; MICROSPHERE; NITROGEN 13;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD VOLUME; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOG; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOGS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030453541     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1071-3581(96)90059-8     Document Type: Article

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