Advances in technical aspects of myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 255-276

  Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Patton, James A ^b   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Germano, Guido ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEVICE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME; CARDIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING;

CARDIOLOGY; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67649994709     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9052-6     Document Type: Article

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