Tl gated single photon emission computed tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging in the assessment of global and regional left ventricular function. would it be favoured over equilibrium radionuclide angiography?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 665-673

  Moralidis, Efstratios ^a   Spyridonidis, Tryfon ^a   Arsos, Georgios ^a   Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Karatzas, Nikolaos ^b   Vassilakos, Pavlos ^b   Karakatsanis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Rio University Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium radionuclide angiography; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Regional wall motion; Tl gated SPECT

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201; TRACER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; THALLIUM; THALLIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PREDICTION; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; STRESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GATED IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 3142622846     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000130245.52562.bf     Document Type: Article

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