Rest-redistribution thallium-201 SPECT to detect myocardial viability

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 384-390

  Sciagrà, Roberto ^a   Santoro, Giovanni M ^b   Bisi, Gianni ^b   Pedenovi, Paola ^b   Fazzini, Pier Filippo ^b   Pupi, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hibernating myocardium; Receiver operating characteristic analysis; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVASCULARIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031905678     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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