Comparison of simultaneous dual-isotope multipinhole SPECT with rotational SPECT in a group of patients with coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1080-1089

  Steele, Peter P ^a   Kirch, Dennis L ^a   Koss, John E ^a  

^a Western Cardiology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Circumferential profile curves; Multipinhole collimation; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM CHLORIDE TL 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA IMAGE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 46749121055     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.040915     Document Type: Article

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