Superimposed display of coronary artery on gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1444-1449

  Nishimura, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Fukuchi, Kazuki ^a   Katafuchi, Tetsuro ^a   Sagou, Masayoshi ^a   Oka, Hisashi ^a   Ishida, Yoshio ^a   Murase, Kenya ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Image fusion; Myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 6944241164     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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