Detection of residual wall motion after sustained myocardial infarction by gated 99tcm-tetrofosmin spect: A comparison with echocardiography

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-182

  Wahba, F F M ^a   Bavelaar Croon, C D L ^a   Baur, L H B ^a   Zwinderman, A H ^a   Van Roosmalen, R P M ^a   Pauwels, E K J ^a   Van Der Wall, E E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Gated SPECT; Myocardial infarction; Wall motion analysis

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; REVASCULARIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035107226     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200102000-00009     Document Type: Review

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