Relationship between lung-to-heart uptake ratio of technetium-99m- tetrofosmin during exercise myocardial single photon emission computed tomographic imaging and the number of diseased coronary arteries in patients with effort angina pectoris without myocardial infarction

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 165-171

  Okajima, Toshiya ^a   Ueshima, Kenji ^a   Nishiyama, Osamu ^a   Ogawa, Muneyoshi ^a   Ohuchi, Mami ^a   Saitoh, Masahiko ^a   Hiramori, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angina pectoris; Coronary vessels; Radionuclide imaging (99mTc tetrofosmin)

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2 BIS(BIS(2 ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2-BIS(BIS(2-ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EXERCISE TEST; HEART; METABOLISM; SCINTISCANNING;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY VESSELS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 2942750091     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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