Implementation of technetium-99m MIBI SPECT imaging guidelines: Optimizing the two day stress-rest protocol

International Journal of Cardiac Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-335

  Lavalaye, Jules M ^a   Schroeder Tanka, Jutta M ^a   Tiel van Buul, Monique M C ^a   Van Der Wall, Ernst E ^b   Lie, Kong I ^a   Van Royen, Eric A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Imaging protocols; Myocardial ischemia; Single photon emission computed tomography; Technetium 99m MIBI

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030824021     PISSN: 01679899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005767525788     Document Type: Article

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