Regional wall thickening in gated myocardial perfusion SPECT in a Japanese population: Effect of sex, radiotracer, rotation angles and frame rates

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1608-1615

  Akhter, Nasima ^a   Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Okuda, Koichi ^a   Matsuo, Shinro ^a   Yoneyama, Tatsuya ^a   Taki, Junichi ^a   Kinuya, Seigo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

201Tl; 99mTc sestamibi; Population specific standard; Quantitative gated SPECT; Regional myocardial thickening

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; TRACER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL THICKENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOISOTOPES; REFERENCE VALUES; ROTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 50449086577     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0804-3     Document Type: Article

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