The importance of population-specific normal database for quantification of myocardial ischemia: Comparison between Japanese 360 and 180-degree databases and a US database

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 422-430

  Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Okuda, Koichi ^a   Kawano, Masaya ^b   Matsuo, Shinro ^a   Slomka, Piotr ^c   Germano, Guido ^c   Kinuya, Seigo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA CARDIOVASCULAR HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronaryartery disease; Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine database; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Normal database; Quantification

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68049129743     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9049-1     Document Type: Article

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