Improved detection of left main coronary artery disease with attenuation-corrected SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 639-648

  Duvernoy, Claire S ^a   Ficaro, Edward P ^a   Karabajakian, Mark Z ^a   Rose, Patricia A ^a   Corbett, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Coronary disease; Imaging; Radioisotopes; Scintigraphy; Tomography

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS;

EID: 0034525959     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mnc.2000.109454     Document Type: Article

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