The optimal reference population for cardiac normality in myocardial SPET in the detection of coronary artery stenoses: Patients with normal coronary angiography or subjects with low likelihood of coronary artery disease?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 831-835

  Toft, J ^a   Lindahl, D ^a   Ohlsson, M ^a   Palmer, J ^a   Lundin, A ^a   Edenbrandt, L ^a   Hesse, B ^a  

^a Info Eng in Med   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Myocardial single photon emission tomography; Neural network; Normality; Reference standards

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034919714     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590100538     Document Type: Article

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