Cardiac cameras

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 182-201

  Travin, Mark I ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; TRACER;

ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953189705     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2010.12.007     Document Type: Review

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