Hybrid cardiac imaging: More than the sum of its parts?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-126

  Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38649108204     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.12.002     Document Type: Review

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