Cardiac PET, CT, and MR: What are the advantages of hybrid imaging?

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-31

  Saraste, Antti ^a   Knuuti, Juhani ^a,b  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; CT; CT angiography; Hybrid imaging; MR; PET

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857640298     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-011-0231-0     Document Type: Article

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