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Acute rest myocardial perfusion imaging in the emergency department: A technique whose time has come … or gone?

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Nuclear Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 80 Seymour St, 06102, Hartford, CT

    Gary V. Heller

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Heller, G.V. Acute rest myocardial perfusion imaging in the emergency department: A technique whose time has come … or gone?. J Nucl Cardiol 9, 350–352 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1067/mnc.2002.124477

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