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Myocardial perfusion may be an important determinant as well as from the diagnostic and therapeutic point of view, especially in coronary heart disease. At present, there are existing several methods being usable noninvasively or invasively for assessing myocardial perfusion. Most widely used in the general cardiological practice is the Thallium-201-scintigraphy [1, 2]. There are limitations however concerning quantitative evaluation [3]. Recently also computertomography (CT) became available for determination of perfusion abnormalities [4, 5]. An interesting modification seemed us to be cardio-CT in combination with intracoronary injections of contrast medium [6].
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Sandring, KH., Gliech, V., Dänschel, W., Müller, C., Günther, K.H. (1985). Cardio-computertomography for assessing regional myocardial perfusion abnormalities in coronary heart disease. In: Meyer, J., Erbel, R., Rupprecht, H.J. (eds) Improvement of Myocardial Perfusion. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5032-0_30
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