Parametric quantification of myocardial ischaemia using real-time perfusion adenosine stress echocardiography images, with SPECT as reference method

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-42

  Gudmundsson, P ^a   Shahgaldi, K ^b   Winter, R ^b   Dencker, M ^c   Kitlinski, M ^c   Thorsson, O ^c   Ljunggren, L ^a   Willenheimer, R ^c,d  

^a MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Heart Health Group   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coronary insufficiency; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Quantitative; Stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; QONTRAST; SONOVUE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REAL TIME PERFUSION ADENOSINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; AGED; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 72549107087     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2009.00901.x     Document Type: Article

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