Technetium-99m-HMPAO brain SPECT in patients with syndrome X

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 959-961

  Weidmann, Bernd ^a,b   Jansen, Wolfgang C ^a,b   Bock, Axel ^a,b   Assheuer, Josef ^a,b   Tauchert, Michael O ^a,b  

^a Division of Cardiology   (Germany)

^b Inst of Radiol and Nucl Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNDROME X;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030956496     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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