Ventilation-perfusion lung scintigraphy

Imaging Decisions MRI

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Tiel van Buul, M M C ^a   Verzijlbergen, J F ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Lung perfusion ventilation scintigraphy; Lung scintigraphy; Pulmonary embolism; V P lung scan; V Q scan

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON 81M; RUBIDIUM 81; TECHNETIUM 99M; XENON 133;

ALTITUDE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDARTERECTOMY; ENERGY; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VENTILATION DISTRIBUTION; NEBULIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 12344273149     PISSN: 14333317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1617-0830.2004.00031.x     Document Type: Review

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