Quantitative gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with Tl: an assessment of the limitations

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1147-1151

  Wright, G A ^a   McDade, M ^a   Keeble, W ^b   Martin, W ^b   Hutton, I ^b  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b East Yorkshire Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034489652     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200012000-00008     Document Type: Article

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