Should PET replace SPECT for evaluating CAD? The end of the beginning

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-7

  Di Carli, Marcelo F ^a   Hachamovitch, Rory ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RUBIDIUM 82; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 32044440579     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2005.12.001     Document Type: Editorial

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