Heart failure diagnostics based on ventilation/perfusion single photon emission computed tomography pattern and quantitative perfusion gradients

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 666-673

  Jögi, Jonas ^a   Palmer, John ^a   Jonson, Björn ^a   Bajc, Marika ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Perfusion gradients; Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary scintigraphy; Ventilation perfusion single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

MACROSALB TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNEGAS; TECHNESCAN; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 55249108218     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328302cd26     Document Type: Article

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