Rapid cardiac hybrid imaging with minimized radiation dose for accurate non-invasive assessment of ischemic coronary artery disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-13

  Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Burger, Irene A ^a   Valenta, Ines ^a   Altorfer, Ulrich ^a   Wolfrum, Mathias ^a   Nkoulou, Rene N ^a   Ghadri, Jelena R ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT coronary angiography; Hybrid; Radiation dose; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 81055133461     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2010.08.023     Document Type: Article

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