Absolute Figures Are Better Than Percentages

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 759-760

  Camici, Paolo G ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiac imaging; coronary artery disease; myocardial blood flow; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NITROGEN 13; TRACER;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; AMMONIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HUMANS; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 66449113937     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.04.005     Document Type: Editorial

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