Comparative roles of cardiac CT and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy in the evaluation of patients with coronary artery disease: Competitive or complementary

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 761-770

  Yerramasu, Ajay ^a   Lahiri, Avijit ^a,b,c   Chua, Terrance ^d  

^a WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957010646     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9260-0     Document Type: Review

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