Low-dose dobutamine electrocardiograph-gated myocardial SPECT for identifying viable myocardium: Comparison with dobutamine stress echocardiography and PET

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 838-844

  Yoshinaga, K ^a   Morita, K ^a   Yamada, S ^a   Komuro, K ^a   Katoh, C ^a   Ito, Y ^a   Kuge, Y ^a   Kohya, T ^a   Kitabatake, A ^a   Tamaki, N ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dobutamine; Emission CT echocardiography; FDG; Myocardial viability

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DYSKINESIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0034975436     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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