The 24-hour Tl-201 image in dual isotope myocardial perfusion scintigraphy: Clinical utility and prognostic significance

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 576-581

  Kipper, Michael S ^a,b   Labarbera, Judith J ^a   Krohn, Linda D ^a  

^a Tri City Medical Center   (United States)

^b Outpatient Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

24 Hour Imaging; Delayed Reversibility; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031714421     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199809000-00002     Document Type: Article

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