Reproducibility and accuracy of quantitative myocardial blood flow assessment with 82Rb PET: Comparison with 13N-ammonia PET

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1062-1071

  El Fakhri, Georges ^a   Kardan, Arash ^a   Sitek, Arkadiusz ^b   Dorbala, Sharmila ^b   Abi Hatem, Nathalie ^a,c   Lahoud, Youmna ^c   Fischman, Alan ^d   Coughlan, Martha ^b   Yasuda, Tsunehiro ^a   Di Carli, Marcelo F ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOLY SPIRIT UNIVERSITY OF KASLIK USEK   (Lebanon)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

13N ammonia; 82Rb; Myocardial blood flow; PET

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DIPYRIDAMOLE; NITROGEN 13; RUBIDIUM 82;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650035154     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.104.007831     Document Type: Article

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