The Achilles heel of SPECT imaging: The false-positive scans-or are they?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 747-748

  Iskandrian, Ami E ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; SYNDROME X;

ARTIFACTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33845411243     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.09.005     Document Type: Editorial

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