The Year in Cardiac Imaging

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2324-2339

  Gibbons, Raymond J ^a   Araoz, Philip A ^a   Williamson, Eric E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 QUINOLINOL INDIUM IN 111; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IRON DERIVATIVE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITROGEN 13; PLACEBO; RUBIDIUM; RUBIDIUM 82; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM; TRACER;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; HEART; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845203341     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.09.018     Document Type: Review

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