Left ventricular cavity-to-myocardium count ratio in technetium-99m-sestamibi SPECT in the detection of resting left ventricular dysfunction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 766-770

  Pupi, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cavity to myocardium count ratio; Left ventricular function; SPECT; Technetium 99m sestamibi

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030992875     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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