Assessment of adenosine, arbutamine and dobutamine as pharmacological stress agents during 99mtc-tetrofosmin spect imaging: A randomized study

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1305-1311

  Wright, D J ^a   Williams, S G ^a   Lindsay, H S J ^a   Sheard, K L ^b   Thorley, P J ^b   Sivananthan, U M ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

99mTc SPECT; Adenosine; Arbutamine; Dobutamine

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ARBUTAMINE; DOBUTAMINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATECHOLAMINES; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOBUTAMINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035204566     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200112000-00005     Document Type: Review

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