Significance of late redistribution thallium-201 imaging after rest injection for detection of viable myocardium

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1073-1078

  Matsunari, Ichiro ^a   Fujino, Susumu ^b   Taki, Junichi ^b   Senma, Junji ^b   Aoyama, Takahiko ^b   Wakasugi, Takanobu ^b   Hirai, Jun Ichi ^b   Saga, Takashi ^b   Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^b   Tonami, Norihisa ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Late redistribution; Myocardial viability; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; REST; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030755409     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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