Ventilation/perfusion SPECT - An essential but underrated method for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and other diseases

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 875-878

  Bajc, Marika ^a   Jonson, Björn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

MDCT; Pulmonary embolism; Ventilation perfusion SPECT

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMONIA; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PERFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 64649084076     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1125-x     Document Type: Letter

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