Left ventricular hypertrophy and SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: Finding the diamonds in the rough

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 398-407

  Jaber, Wael A ^a   DiFilippo, Frank P ^a   Cerqueira, Manuel D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GATED IMAGING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34249650047     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.04.012     Document Type: Article

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