Economic and biological costs of cardiac imaging

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Picano, Eugenio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

AWARENESS; BIOSAFETY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFESPAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MARKETING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOCIETY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 23044432220     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-3-13     Document Type: Review

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