Quantitative relationship of stress Tc-99m sestamibi lung uptake with resting Tl-201 lung uptake and with indices of left ventricular dysfunction and coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 408-413

  Patel, Gaurav M ^a   Hauser, Thomas H ^a   Parker, J Anthony ^a   Pinto, Duane S ^a   Sanders, Gregory P ^a   Aepfelbacher, Franz C ^a   Koutkia, Polyxeni ^b   Danias, Peter G ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung uptake; Lung to heart ratio; Technetium 99m; Thallium 201

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UPTAKE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 4243178137     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2004.03.032     Document Type: Article

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