Diagnostic performance of fusion of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and computed tomography coronary angiography

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-211

  Santana, Cesar A ^a   Garcia, Ernest V ^a   Faber, Tracy L ^a   Sirineni, Gopi K R ^a   Esteves, Fabio P ^a   Sanyal, Rupan ^a   Halkar, Raghuveer ^a   Ornelas, Mario ^a   Verdes, Liudmila ^a   Lerakis, Stamatios ^a   Ramos, Julie J ^a   Aguadé Bruix, Santiago ^b   Cuéllar, Hugo ^b   Candell Riera, Jaume ^b   Raggi, Paolo ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Coronary artery disease; Diagnostic and prognostic application; Myocardial perfusion imaging; PET imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREND STUDY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67650004076     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-008-9019-z     Document Type: Article

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