Fusion imaging: Combined visualization of 3D reconstructed coronary artery tree and 3D myocardial scintigraphic image in coronary artery disease

International Journal of Cardiac Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 357-368

  Schindler, Thomas H ^a,b   Magosaki, Nobuhisa ^a   Jeserich, Michael ^a   Oser, Uwe ^a   Krause, Thomas ^b   Fischer, Richard ^b   Moser, Ernst ^b   Nitzsche, Egbert ^b   Zehender, Manfred ^a   Just, Hanjörg ^a   Solzbach, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary disease; Scintigraphy; Three dimensional fusion imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032719421     PISSN: 01679899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006232407637     Document Type: Article

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