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In recent years the use of radioactive tracers in clinical cardiology has become a routine procedure in the diagnosis and management of patients of cardiac disease. Radionuclide techniques have achieved a role equal in importance to electrocardiography, echocardiography, and cardiac catheterization. Broadly speaking, radionuclide techniques fall into two major categories: those concerned with the heart as a muscle and those concerned with the heart as a pump. Since this chapter regards the scintigraphic aspects of coronary artery perfusion, attention will mainly be focused on the techniques that deal with the heart as a muscle. Before entering these issues, some necessary technical information will be provided.
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van der Wall, E.E. (1992). Perfusion: Evaluation of myocardial blood flow by radionuclide imaging. In: Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2826-1_1
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