Assessment of global and regional left ventricular function by electrocardiographic gated N-13 ammonia positron emission tomography in patients with coronary artery disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-182

  Kanayama, Sugako ^a   Matsunari, Ichiro ^b   Hirayama, Akira ^c   Kitayama, Michihiko ^a   Matsudaira, Masamichi ^b   Yoneyama, Tatsuya ^d   Nekolla, Stephan G ^e   Hisada, Kinichi ^b   Kajinami, Koji ^a   Takekoshi, Noboru ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Medical and Pharmacological Research Center Foundation   (Japan)

^c GE Yokogawa Medical Systems   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Klinik fur Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Gated 13N ammonia positron emission tomography; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMMONIA; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 20044387018     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.177     Document Type: Article

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