Diagnosing coronary artery disease with hybrid PET/CT: It takes two to tango

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 874-890

  Danad, Ibrahim ^a   Raijmakers, Pieter G ^a   Knaapen, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; diagnostic and prognostic application; PET CT imaging

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13;

BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84884700896     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-013-9753-8     Document Type: Review

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