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01-06-2016 | Editorial

Equilibrium gated radionuclide angiocardiography: Its invention, rise, and decline and … comeback?

Author: Frans J. Th. Wackers, MD, PhD, MASNC

Published in: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology | Issue 3/2016

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The seminal publication by Zaret and Strauss1 in 1971 on the assessment of cardiac left ventricular function without cardiac catheterization, using radionuclide cardiac blood pool imaging, marks the first appearance of nuclear cardiology in the clinical literature. …

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Title: Equilibrium gated radionuclide angiocardiography: Its invention, rise, and decline and … comeback?
Author: Frans J. Th. Wackers, MD, PhD, MASNC
Publication date: 01-06-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 1071-3581
Electronic ISSN: 1532-6551
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-016-0414-6

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