Generation of myocardial factor images directly from the dynamic oxygen- 15-water scan without use of an oxygen-15-carbon monoxide blood-pool scan

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1696-1702

  Hermansen, Flemming ^a   Ashburner, John ^c   Spinks, Terry J ^c   Kooner, Jaspai S ^c   Camici, Paolo G ^c   Lammertsma, Adriaan A ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Myocardial and blood pool images; Myocardial blood flow; PET

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE O 15; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER O 15;

ARTICLE; BLOOD POOL SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; WATER;

EID: 0031663697     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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