Letter to the editor: Interobserver variability of heart-to-Mediastinum ratio in I-123 MIBG sympathetic imaging

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 389-390

  Bulten, Ben F ^a   Van Der Palen, Roel L F ^a   Van Laarhoven, Hanneke W M ^a,b   Kapusta, Livia ^a   Mavinkurve Groothuis, Annelies M C ^a   De Geus Oei, Lioe Fee ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; (3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; GOLD STANDARD; HEART TO MEDIASTINUM RATIO; HUMAN; LETTER; OBSERVER BIAS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REGION OF INTEREST; HEART; HEART FAILURE; MEDIASTINUM; NOTE; SCINTISCANNING;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 84865579998     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-012-0276-8     Document Type: Letter

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