Diagnostic impact of SPECT image display on assessment of obstructive coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 659-668

  Weinsaft, Jonathan W ^a   Gade, Christopher L ^a   Wong, Franklin J ^a   Kim, Han W ^a   Min, James K ^a   Manoushagian, Shant J ^a   Okin, Peter M ^a   Szulc, Massimiliano ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; image processing; Myocardial perfusion imaging; single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADENOSINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; COLORIMETRY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34548444951     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.06.115     Document Type: Article

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