Abstract
The ability of high and low mechanical index (MI) imaging methods during myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) to assess the physiologic significance of coronary stenoses were compared with technetium 99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1171-1177 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 11 |
Early online date | 27 Oct 2003 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2003 |
Keywords
- Aged
- Blood Flow Velocity
- Blood Pressure
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Dipyridamole
- Echocardiography
- Echocardiography, Stress
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Heart Rate
- Heart Septum
- Heart Ventricles
- Humans
- Injections, Intravenous
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Myocardial Reperfusion
- Myocardium
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
- Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
- Vasodilator Agents