Thallium gated spect: relation between immediate post-stress evolution of ejection fraction and severity of perfusion pattern

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-64

  ITTI, E ^a   LEVY, M ^a   POUILLART, F ^a   PEREZ, T ^a   BELLORINI, M ^b   ROSSO, J ^b   MEIGNAN, M ^b  

^a Centre Hospitalier Henri Mondor   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

201 thallium; Ejection fraction; Gated SPECT; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REST; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035117837     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200101000-00008     Document Type: Article

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