Published May 1985
| Version v1
Journal article
Nuclear cardiology
Description
Radionuclide cardiac imaging is a safe, noninvasive alternative to cardiac catheterization for observation and evaluation of cardiac wall motion and calculation of ejection fraction. Nuclide imaging offers a greater degree of sensitivity and specificity in detecting myocardial ischemia and infarction than do conventional electrocardiographic and cardiac enzyme studies. It is especially useful in problem cases. Myocardial infarction can usually be evaluated with respect to size and relative age of infarction
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Am. Fam. Physician
- Journal Issue
- no.5
- Series
- Am. Fam. Physician.
- ISSN
- 0002-3612
- CODEN
- AFPYA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17031988
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- DIAGNOSIS; DYNAMIC FUNCTION STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; HEART; ISCHEMIA; ISOMERIC NUCLEI; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PYROPHOSPHATES; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; TECHNETIUM 99; THALLIUM 201
- Descriptors DEC
- ANEMIAS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BLOOD; BLOOD CELLS; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; CARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HEMIC DISEASES; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SYMPTOMS; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES; THALLIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES