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Venkatesh L Murthy1, Leslee J Shaw2, Brahmajee K Nallamothu2

  • 1From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (V.L.M., B.K.N.); Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (V.L.M.); Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (L.J.S.); Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (B.K.N.); and Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, MI (B.K.N.). vlmurthy@med.umich.edu.

Circulation
|March 8, 2017
PubMed
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cardiac-gated single-photon emission computer-assisted tomographynuclear reactorsradioisotopestechnetium

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