Use of rotating (cine) planar projection images in the interpretation of a tomographic myocardial perfusion study

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 234-240

  Hendel, Robert C ^a,d   Gibbons, Raymond J ^b   Bateman, Timothy M ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATTENUATION; CARDIOMEGALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAPHRAGM; EXERCISE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG FUNCTION; MOTION; NEOPLASM; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE;

EID: 0032916119     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(99)90084-3     Document Type: Editorial

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