13N-ammonia myocardial perfusion imaging with a PET/CT scanner: Impact on clinical decision making and cost-effectiveness

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 889-895

  Siegrist, Patrick T ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Knabenhans, Martina ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Valenta, Ines ^a   Hoefflinghaus, Tobias ^a   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

13N ammonia myocardial perfusion imaging; Clinical decision making; Cost effectiveness; Impact on patient management; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMMONIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42149185608     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0647-3     Document Type: Article

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