Imaging the infected heart

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 99, 2011, Pages

  Alavi, Abass ^a   Saboury, Babak ^a   Basu, Sandip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; VANCOMYCIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; HEART; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052589793     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003044     Document Type: Short Survey

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