Timing is everything

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-12

  Port, Steven C ^a  

^a Cardiology Fellowship Research and Cardiac Rehabilitation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; TIME;

GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38649084760     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.11.007     Document Type: Editorial

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