Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT Imaging: The Next Step in Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 341-347

  Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b   Di Carli, Marcelo F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651174807     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.03.007     Document Type: Review

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