Estimation of coronary flow reserve by SPECT: Myth or reality?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1152-1155

  Castell Conesa, J ^a   Candell Riera, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSAY; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NOTE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PERFUSION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34548093510     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0415-4     Document Type: Note

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