Hybrid PET/CT is greater than the sum of its parts

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 118-122

  Di Carli, Marcelo F ^a,b   Hachamovitch, Rory ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

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

EID: 38849143266     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.12.001     Document Type: Review

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