Diagnostic accuracy of supine and prone thallium-201 stress myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography to detect coronary artery disease in inferior wall of left ventricle

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-321

  Katayama, Takuji ^a   Ogata, Nobuhiko ^a   Tsuruya, Yoshio ^a  

^a Tokyo Kita Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Myocardial perfusion SPECT; Prone imaging

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM 201;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPINE POSITION; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 44949233677     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0118-3     Document Type: Article

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