Gated Tl-201 myocardial perfusion SPECT application of energy window optimization

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 479-482

  Wadhwa, Surjit S ^a,b   Mansberg, Robert ^a   Wilkinson, David ^a   Abbati, Donna ^a  

^a WOLLONGONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy window optimization; Gated myocardial SPECT; Tl 201

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; THALLIUM;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSIMETRY; GATED IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTON; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032587679     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199907000-00001     Document Type: Article

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