Advantages and disadvantages of PET and SPECT in a busy clinical practice

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 3-11

  Bateman, Timothy M ^a  

^a Cardiovascular Radiologic Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial perfusion imaging; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; RUBIDIUM 82; TECHNETIUM 99M;

CAMERA; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MICROVASCULATURE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84861508196     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9490-9     Document Type: Review

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