Effect of endomyocardial laser channels on regional innervation shown with 125I-MIBG and autoradiography

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 551-555

  Johnson, Lynne L ^a   Thambar, Sukumaran ^a   Donahay, Tammy ^a   Dae, Michael ^a   Williams, David O ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lasers; Mapping catheter; Metaiodobenzylguanidine; Swine model

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 125; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HEART CATHETER; HEART INNERVATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SWINE;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DENERVATION; HEART; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SWINE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 0036214408     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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