Published 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Radiopharmaceuticals for studying cardiac metabolism

  • 1. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Newington, CT (USA). Nuclear Medicine Service
  • 2. Connecticut Univ., Farmington, CT (USA). Dept. of Nuclear Medicine

Description

A review is given of the different classes of radiopharmaceuticals used to study cardiac metabolism. These include myocardial metabolic radiopharmaceuticals, radiopharmaceuticals for planar and single photon tomography, 'trappable' metabolically resistant fatty acid analogs for myocardial imaging, radiopharmaceuticals for positron emission tomography and finally radiopharmaceuticals for receptor binding studies. (UK)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Journal Volume
17
Journal Issue
1
Series
Nucl. Med. Biol.
Journal Page Range
103-128
ISSN
0883-2897
CODEN
NMBIE

Conference

Title
Radiopharmaceutical basis of nuclear medicine symposium.
Dates
10-12 Mar 1989.
Place
Farmington, CT (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
United Kingdom
INIS RN
21079470
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
HEART; METABOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS; REVIEWS; SCINTISCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY
Descriptors DEC
BODY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DOCUMENT TYPES; DRUGS; LABELLED COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; ORGANS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING