Cardiac hybrid imaging

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-60

  Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Saraste, Antti ^b,c   Knuuti, Juhani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Hybrid imaging; MRI; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84863829483     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer240     Document Type: Review

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