Setting up a myocardial perfusion scintigraphy service: Clinical and business aspects

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2005, Pages

  Kelion, Andrew D ^a  

^a HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; UNITED KINGDOM;

CORONARY DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 23944462377     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.060178     Document Type: Review

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