Diagnostic value of 13N-ammonia myocardial perfusion PET: Added value of myocardial flow reserve

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1230-1234

  Fiechter, Michael ^a,b   Ghadri, Jelena R ^a   Gebhard, Cathérine ^a   Fuchs, Tobias A ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   Nkoulou, Rene N ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

13N ammonia; Diagnostic value; Myocardial flow reserve; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; AMMONIA; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; NITROGEN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL FLOW RESERVE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

AMMONIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84864767807     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.101840     Document Type: Article

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