Influence of the postexercise acquisition delay on the detection of functional abnormalities in sestamibi-gated SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 334-340

  Sciagrà, Roberto ^a   Sotgia, Barbara ^a   Dona, Manjola ^a   Pupi, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; exercise stress testing; gated single photon emission computed tomography; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34249752015     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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