Editorial: Supine acceptance of a conventional imaging position may make you less prone to success

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-18

  Germano, Guido ^a   Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ARTIFACT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PRONE POSITION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 75949109104     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9187-5     Document Type: Editorial

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