A second look with prone SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging reduces the need for angiography in patients at low risk for cardiac death or MI

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-122

  Worden, Nicole E ^a   Lindower, Paul D ^a   Burns, Trudy L ^b   Chatterjee, Kanu ^a   Weiss, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; image processing; myocardial perfusion imaging: SPECT; outcomes research; SPECT

Indexed keywords

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84935844558     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-014-9934-0     Document Type: Article

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