Is a low-dose Tc-99m-MIBI protocol suitable for first-pass RNV?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 965-970

  Tausig, A ^a   Knesewitsch, P ^a   Brinkbaumer K ^b   Tatsch, K ^b   Hahn, K ^b  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 0034293006     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200010000-00012     Document Type: Article

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