Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of stress spect myocardial perfusion imaging for detection of coronary artery disease in the distribution of first-order branch vessels, using an anatomical matching of angiographic and perfusion data

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 543-549

  Schwartz, J G ^a   Johnson, R B ^a   Aepfelbacher, F C ^a   Parker, J A ^a   Chen, L ^b   Azar, R R ^b   Parker, R A ^b   Danias, P G ^b  

^a Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch vessel; Coronary artery disease; SPECT.

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 1542495707     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200305000-00010     Document Type: Article

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