Myocardial sestamibi single-photon emission tomography: Variations in reference values with gender, age and rest versus stress?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 409-414

  Toft, Jens ^a   Hesse, Birger ^a   Rabøl, Alan ^a   Carstensen, Steen ^a   Ali, Samir ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age; Myocardial single photon emission tomography; Reference limits

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030891631     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050070     Document Type: Article

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