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Frans J Th Wackers; Jeffrey A Leppo
The origins and early years of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Frans J Th Wackers
Acute chest pain of uncertain etiology, the short and long view.
Mohit Jain; Ben A Lin; Chileshe Nkonde; Alerice Walker; Frans J Th Wackers
85% of maximal age-predicted heart rate is not a valid endpoint for exercise treadmill testing.

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2013: Frans J Th Wackers; Jeffrey A Leppo
The origins and early years of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2013;20(1):6-16.
2012: Frans J Th Wackers
Acute chest pain of uncertain etiology, the short and long view.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2012;19(2):220-3.
2011: Mohit Jain; Ben A Lin; Chileshe Nkonde; Alerice Walker; Frans J Th Wackers
85% of maximal age-predicted heart rate is not a valid endpoint for exercise treadmill testing.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2011;18(6):1026-35.
2011: Frans J Th Wackers
The art of communicating: The Nuclear Cardiology Report.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2011;18(5):833-5.
2011: Shanti Bansal; Frans J Th Wackers; Silvio E Inzucchi; Deborah A Chyun; Janice A Davey; Lawrence H Staib; Lawrence H Young
Five-year outcomes in high-risk participants in the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) study: a post hoc analysis.
Diabetes care 2011;34(1):204-9.
2010: Frans J Th Wackers
Cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging: finally up to speed?
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2010;55(18):1975-8.
2009: Joanne D Schuijf; Stephan Achenbach; William A Zoghbi; Eric Boersma; Paolo Raggi; Michael Weber; Eike Nagel; Jagat Narula; Frans J Th Wackers; Don Poldermans; Jeroen J Bax
How to identify the asymptomatic high-risk patient?
Current problems in cardiology 2009;34(11):539-77.
2009: Frans J Th Wackers; Lawrence H Young
Lessons learned from the detection of ischemia in asymptomatic diabetics (DIAD) study.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2009;16(6):855-9.
2009: Frans J Th Wackers
Customized exercise testing.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2009;54(6):546-8.
2009: Raymond R Russell; Brian Abbott; James A Arrighi; Frank M Bengel; James A Case; Tracy L Faber; Holly Thomas; Jennifer H Mieres; Todd D Miller; Leslee J Shaw; Frans J Th Wackers; Jeroen J Bax
Highlights of the 2008 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology : Boston, Massachusetts, 10-14 September 2008.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2009;16(3):440-6.
2009: Lawrence H Young; Frans J Th Wackers; Deborah A Chyun; Janice A Davey; Eugene J Barrett; Raymond Taillefer; Gary V Heller; Ami E Iskandrian; Steven D Wittlin; Neil Filipchuk; Robert E Ratner; Silvio E Inzucchi
Cardiac outcomes after screening for asymptomatic coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: the DIAD study: a randomized controlled trial.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2009;301(15):1547-55.
2009: Stanley Chia; John T Nagurney; David F M Brown; O Christopher Raffel; Fabian Bamberg; Fred Senatore; Frans J Th Wackers; Ik-Kyung Jang
Association of leukocyte and neutrophil counts with infarct size, left ventricular function and outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
The American journal of cardiology 2009;103(3):333-7.
2008: Stanley Chia; Fred Senatore; O Christopher Raffel; Hang Lee; Frans J Th Wackers; Ik-Kyung Jang
Utility of cardiac biomarkers in predicting infarct size, left ventricular function, and clinical outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
JACC. Cardiovascular interventions 2008;1(4):415-23.
2008: Arthur J H A Scholte; Joanne D Schuijf; Antje V Kharagjitsingh; Petra Dibbets-Schneider; Marcel P M Stokkel; J Wouter Jukema; Ernst E van der Wall; Jeroen J Bax; Frans J Th Wackers
Different manifestations of coronary artery disease by stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, coronary calcium scoring, and multislice CT coronary angiography in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2008;15(4):503-9.
2008: Manuel D Cerqueira; Daniel S Berman; Marcelo F Di Carli; Heinrich R Schelbert; Frans J Th Wackers; Kim Allan Williams
Task force 5: training in nuclear cardiology endorsed by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2008;51(3):368-74.
2008: Juhani Knuuti; Don Poldermans; James E Udelson; Frans J Th Wackers; Jeroen J Bax
Imaging highlights from the European Society of Cardiology, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and Heart Failure Society of America.
JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2008;1(1):119-28.
2008: Ik-Kyung Jang; Neil J Weissman; Michael H Picard; Michael R Zile; Veronica Pettigrew; Steven Shen; Jun Tatsuno; Mark G Hibberd; Dan Tzivoni; Frans J Th Wackers
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of intravenous MCC-135 as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Evaluation of MCC-135 for left ventricular salvage in acute myocardial infarction (EVOLVE).
American heart journal 2008;155(1):113.e1-8.
2007: Raymond R Russell; Brian Abbott; James A Arrighi; Frank M Bengel; Mylan C Cohen; Ernest V Garcia; Robert Charles Hendel; Holly Thomas; Jennifer H Mieres; Leslee J Shaw; Gregory S Thomas; Randall C Thompson; Frans J Th Wackers; Jeroen J Bax
Highlights of the 2007 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology San Diego, California, September 6-9, 2007.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2007;50(24):2336-43.
2007: Frans J Th Wackers; Deborah A Chyun; Lawrence H Young; Gary V Heller; Ami E Iskandrian; Janice A Davey; Eugene J Barrett; Raymond Taillefer; Steven D Wittlin; Neil Filipchuk; Robert E Ratner; Silvio E Inzucchi
Resolution of asymptomatic myocardial ischemia in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD) study.
Diabetes care 2007;30(11):2892-8.
2007: Maysa M Abu-Khalaf; Vinni Juneja; Gina G Chung; Michael P DiGiovanna; Rebecca Sipples; Meghan McGurk; Daniel Zelterman; Bruce G Haffty; Michael Reiss; Frans J Th Wackers; Forrester A Lee; Barbara Burtness
Long-term assessment of cardiac function after dose-dense and -intense sequential doxorubicin (A), paclitaxel (T), and cyclophosphamide (C) as adjuvant therapy for high risk breast cancer.
Breast cancer research and treatment 2007;104(3):341-9.
2007: Jeroen J Bax; Brian Abbott; Rob S B Beanlands; Frank M Bengel; Daniel S Berman; Ernest V Garcia; Robert Charles Hendel; Jennifer H Mieres; Leslee J Shaw; Frans J Th Wackers
Highlights of the 2006 Scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology: Montreal, Canada, September 7 to 10, 2006.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2007;49(4):502-8.
2006: Peter L Tilkemeier; Frans J Th Wackers
Myocardial perfusion planar imaging.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2006;13(6):e91-6.
2006: Robert Charles Hendel; Frans J Th Wackers; Daniel S Berman; Edward P Ficaro; E Gordon DePuey; Jeffrey Klein; Manuel D Cerqueira
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology consensus statement: Reporting of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging studies.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2006;13(6):e152-6.
2006: Frans J Th Wackers
Asymptomatic patients with diabetes mellitus should be screened for coronary artery disease.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2006;13(5):609-15.
2006: Todd D Miller; Rita F Redberg; Frans J Th Wackers
Screening asymptomatic diabetic patients for coronary artery disease: why not?
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2006;48(4):761-4.
2006: Georgios I Papaioannou; Christos Kasapis; Richard L Seip; Neil J Grey; Deborah Katten; Frans J Th Wackers; Silvio E Inzucchi; Samuel Engel; Amy Taylor; Lawrence H Young; Deborah A Chyun; Janice A Davey; Ami E Iskandrian; Robert E Ratner; Evelyn C Robinson; Stella Carolan; Gary V Heller
Value of peripheral vascular endothelial function in the detection of relative myocardial ischemia in asymptomatic type 2 diabetic patients who underwent myocardial perfusion imaging.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2006;13(3):362-8.
2006: Jeroen J Bax; Brian Abbott; Daniel S Berman; Ernest V Garcia; Robert S Gropler; Robert Charles Hendel; Diwakar Jain; Jennifer H Mieres; Raymond R Russell; Leslee J Shaw; James E Udelson; Frans J Th Wackers
Highlights of the 2005 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology: Seattle, Washington, September 29-October 2, 2005.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2006;47(7):1478-84.
2006: Deborah A Chyun; Gail D'Eramo Melkus; Deborah Katten; Wendie J Price; Janice A Davey; Neil Grey; Gary Heller; Frans J Th Wackers
The association of psychological factors, physical activity, neuropathy, and quality of life in type 2 diabetes.
Biological research for nursing 2006;7(4):279-88.
2006: Deborah A Chyun; Deborah Katten; Gail D'Eramo Melkus; Sandra Talley; Janice A Davey; Frans J Th Wackers
The impact of screening for asymptomatic myocardial ischemia in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
The Journal of cardiovascular nursing 2006;21(2):E1-7.
2006: Rajesh Venkataraman; Moutasim Al-Shaer; Frans J Th Wackers
Assessment of flow-mediated vasodilation.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2006;13(2):300; author reply 300-1.
2006: Manuel D Cerqueira; Daniel S Berman; Marcelo F Di Carli; Heinrich R Schelbert; Frans J Th Wackers; Kim Allan Williams
Task Force 5: training in nuclear cardiology: endorsed by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2006;47(4):898-904.
2006: Arthur J H A Scholte; Jeroen J Bax; Frans J Th Wackers
Screening of asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus for silent coronary artery disease: combined use of stress myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary calcium scoring.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2006;13(1):11-8.
2005: Ik-Kyung Jang; Veronica Pettigrew; Michael H Picard; Peter R Kowey; Valentin Demmel; Michael R Zile; Jun Tatsuno; Frans J Th Wackers; Mark G Hibberd
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of intravenous MCC-135 as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction: rationale and design of the evaluation of MCC-135 for left ventricular salvage in acute MI (EVOLVE) study.
Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis 2005;20(3):147-53.
2005: Yasmin Masood; Yi-Hwa Liu; Gordon Depuey; Raymond Taillefer; Luis I Araujo; Steven Allen; Dominique Delbeke; Frank Anstett; Aharon Peretz; Mary-Jo Zito; Vera Tsatkin; Frans J Th Wackers
Clinical validation of SPECT attenuation correction using x-ray computed tomography-derived attenuation maps: multicenter clinical trial with angiographic correlation.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2005;12(6):676-86.
2005: Frans J Th Wackers
Third Annual Mario S. Verani, MD, Memorial Lecture: The future of clinical nuclear cardiology.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2005;12(4):381-91.
2005: Frans J Th Wackers
On the bright right side.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2005;12(4):378-80.
2005: Frans J Th Wackers
Diabetes and coronary artery disease: the role of stress myocardial perfusion imaging.
Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 2005;72(1):21-5, 29-33.
2005: Yi-Hwa Liu; Albert J Sinusas; Daniel Khaimov; Beata I Gebuza; Frans J Th Wackers
New hybrid count- and geometry-based method for quantification of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from ECG-gated SPECT: methodology and validation.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2005;12(1):55-65.
2004: Jeptha P Curtis; Dennis T Ko; Yun Wang; Frans J Th Wackers; JoAnne M Foody
The prognostic value of vasodilator myocardial perfusion imaging in octogenarians.
The American journal of geriatric cardiology 2004;13(5):239-45, quiz 246-7.
2004: Frans J Th Wackers; Lawrence H Young; Silvio E Inzucchi; Deborah A Chyun; Janice A Davey; Eugene J Barrett; Raymond Taillefer; Steven D Wittlin; Gary V Heller; Neil Filipchuk; Samuel Engel; Robert E Ratner; Ami E Iskandrian
Detection of silent myocardial ischemia in asymptomatic diabetic subjects: the DIAD study.
Diabetes care 2004;27(8):1954-61.
2004: Georgios I Papaioannou; Richard L Seip; Neil J Grey; Deborah Katten; Amy Taylor; Silvio E Inzucchi; Lawrence H Young; Deborah A Chyun; Janice A Davey; Frans J Th Wackers; Ami E Iskandrian; Robert E Ratner; Evelyn C Robinson; Stella Carolan; Samuel Engel; Gary V Heller
Brachial artery reactivity in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria (from the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics-brachial artery reactivity study).
The American journal of cardiology 2004;94(3):294-9.
2004: Michael C Kontos; Frans J Th Wackers
Acute rest myocardial perfusion imaging for chest pain.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2004;11(4):470-81.
2004: James E Udelson; Gary V Heller; Frans J Th Wackers; Andrew Chai; David Hinchman; Patrick S Coleman; Vasken Dilsizian; Marcello DiCarli; Rory Hachamovitch; James R Johnson; Richard J Barrett; Raymond J Gibbons
Randomized, controlled dose-ranging study of the selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist binodenoson for pharmacological stress as an adjunct to myocardial perfusion imaging.
Circulation 2004;109(4):457-64.
2004: Brian F Johnson; Richard W Nesto; Michael A Pfeifer; William R Slater; Aaron I Vinik; Deborah A Chyun; Gordon Law; Frans J Th Wackers; Lawrence H Young
Cardiac abnormalities in diabetic patients with neuropathy: effects of aldose reductase inhibitor administration.
Diabetes care 2004;27(2):448-54.
2003: Robert Charles Hendel; Frans J Th Wackers; Daniel S Berman; Edward P Ficaro; E Gordon DePuey; Jeffrey Klein; Manuel D Cerqueira
American society of nuclear cardiology consensus statement: reporting of radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging studies.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2003;10(6):705-8.
2003: Sachin M Navare; Frans J Th Wackers; Yi-Hwa Liu
Comparison of 16-frame and 8-frame gated SPET imaging for determination of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction.
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2003;30(10):1330-7.
2003: Mikhail Kosiborod; Frans J Th Wackers
Assessment of right ventricular morphology and function.
Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine 2003;24(3):245-62.
2003: Habib Samady; Yi-Hwa Liu; C Joon Choi; Michael Ragosta; Steven E Pfau; Michael W Cleman; Eric Randall Powers; Christopher M Kramer; Frans J Th Wackers; George A Beller; Denny Watson
Electromechanical mapping for detecting myocardial viability and ischemia in patients with severe ischemic cardiomyopathy.
The American journal of cardiology 2003;91(7):807-11.
2003: Frans J Th Wackers
Accreditation of nuclear cardiology laboratories: an educational process.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2003;10(2):205-7.
2003: Brian Abbott; Maryam Afshar; Alan K Berger; Frans J Th Wackers
Prognostic significance of ischemic electrocardiographic changes during adenosine infusion in patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2003;10(1):9-16.
2003: Brian Abbott; Frans J Th Wackers
Use of radionuclide imaging in acute coronary syndromes.
Current cardiology reports 2003;5(1):25-31.
2002: Yi-Hwa Liu; Peter T Lam; Albert J Sinusas; Frans J Th Wackers
Differential effect of 180 degrees and 360 degrees acquisition orbits on the accuracy of SPECT imaging: quantitative evaluation in phantoms.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2002;43(8):1115-24.
2002: Frans J Th Wackers
Should SPET attenuation correction be more widely employed in routine clinical practice? Against.
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2002;29(3):412-5.
2002: Frans J Th Wackers; Kenneth A Brown; Gary V Heller; Michael C Kontos; James L Tatum; James E Udelson; Jack A Ziffer
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology position statement on radionuclide imaging in patients with suspected acute ischemic syndromes in the emergency department or chest pain center.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2002;9(2):246-50.
2002: Habib Samady; Frans J Th Wackers; Tammy M Joska; Barry L Zaret; Diwakar Jain
Pharmacologic stress perfusion imaging with adenosine: role of simultaneous low-level treadmill exercise.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2002;9(2):188-96.
2002: Cindy Q Shi; Lawrence H Young; Edouard Daher; Edward V R DiBella; Yi-Hwa Liu; Eliot Heller; Sami S Zoghbi; Frans J Th Wackers; Robert Soufer; Albert J Sinusas
Correlation of myocardial p-(123)I-iodophenylpentadecanoic acid retention with (18)F-FDG accumulation during experimental low-flow ischemia.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2002;43(3):421-31.
2002: Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Detection of myocardial ischemia in patients with diabetes mellitus.
Circulation 2002;105(1):5-7.
2001: Raymond R Russell; Deborah A Chyun; S Song; Robert S Sherwin; William V Tamborlane; Forrester A Lee; M A Pfeifer; Fran Rife; Frans J Th Wackers; Lawrence H Young
Cardiac responses to insulin-induced hypoglycemia in nondiabetic and intensively treated type 1 diabetic patients.
American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 2001;281(5):E1029-36.
2001: Brian Abbott; I Abdel-Aziz; Satish Nagula; Edward P Monico; John A Schriver; Frans J Th Wackers
Selective use of single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging in a chest pain center.
The American journal of cardiology 2001;87(12):1351-5.
2001: TM Ramahi; MD Longo; A R Cadariu; K Rohlfs; M Slade; Stella Carolan; E Vallejo; Frans J Th Wackers
Dobutamine-induced augmentation of left ventricular ejection fraction predicts survival of heart failure patients with severe non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy.
European heart journal 2001;22(10):849-56.
2001: TM Ramahi; MD Longo; A R Cadariu; K Rohlfs; Stella Carolan; K M Engle; Habib Samady; Frans J Th Wackers
Left ventricular inotropic reserve and right ventricular function predict increase of left ventricular ejection fraction after beta-blocker therapy in nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2001;37(3):818-24.
2000: RW Kim; B S Ugurlu; DA Tereb; Frans J Th Wackers; George Tellides; John A Elefteriades
Effect of left ventricular volume on results of coronary artery bypass grafting.
The American journal of cardiology 2000;86(11):1261-4, A6.
2000: E Vallejo; Donald P Dione; Albert J Sinusas; Frans J Th Wackers
Assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction with quantitative gated SPECT: accuracy and correlation with first-pass radionuclide angiography.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 2000;7(5):461-70.
2000: Jennifer A Mattera; C M De Leon; Frans J Th Wackers; Christianna Williams; Yun Wang; Harlan Krumholz
Association of patients' perception of health status and exercise electrocardiogram, myocardial perfusion imaging, and ventricular function measures.
American heart journal 2000;140(3):409-18.
2000: S Kirac; Frans J Th Wackers; Yi-Hwa Liu
Validation of the Yale circumferential quantification method using 201Tl and 99mTc: a phantom study.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2000;41(8):1436-41.
2000: E Vallejo; Donald P Dione; W L Bruni; R Todd Constable; P P Borek; J P Soares; J G Carr; SG Condos; Frans J Th Wackers; Albert J Sinusas
Reproducibility and accuracy of gated SPECT for determination of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction: experimental validation using MRI.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 2000;41(5):874-82; discussion 883-6.
2000: B G Abbott; Frans J Th Wackers
The role of radionuclide imaging in the triage of patients with chest pain in the emergency department.
Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgão oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology 2000;19 Suppl 1():I53-61.
1999: M Y Shen; Yi-Hwa Liu; Albert J Sinusas; R Fetterman; W Bruni; O E Drozhinin; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Quantification of regional myocardial wall thickening on electrocardiogram-gated SPECT imaging.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1999;6(6):583-95.
1999: Habib Samady; John A Elefteriades; B G Abbott; Jennifer A Mattera; Craig A McPherson; Frans J Th Wackers
Failure to improve left ventricular function after coronary revascularization for ischemic cardiomyopathy is not associated with worse outcome.
Circulation 1999;100(12):1298-304.
1999: Frans J Th Wackers
Blueprint of the Accreditation program of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1999;6(3):372-4.
1999: Yi-Hwa Liu; Albert J Sinusas; P DeMan; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Quantification of SPECT myocardial perfusion images: methodology and validation of the Yale-CQ method.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1999;6(2):190-204.
1999: E Salloum; Lynn T Tanoue; Frans J Th Wackers; Daniel Zelterman; GL Hu; Dennis L Cooper
Assessment of cardiac and pulmonary function in adult patients with Hodgkin's disease treated with ABVD or MOPP/ABVD plus adjuvant low-dose mediastinal irradiation.
Cancer investigation 1999;17(3):171-80.
1998: Jennifer A Mattera; S A Arain; A J Sinusas; L Finta; Frans J Th Wackers
Exercise testing with myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with normal baseline electrocardiograms: cost savings with a stepwise diagnostic strategy.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1998;5(5):498-506.
1998: Harry W Strauss; Donald D Miller; M D Wittry; M D Cerqueira; Ernest V Garcia; A S Iskandrian; Heinrich R Schelbert; Frans J Th Wackers
Procedure guideline for myocardial perfusion imaging. Society of Nuclear Medicine.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1998;39(5):918-23.
1998: Diwakar Jain; S M Shaker; Matthew Burg; Frans J Th Wackers; Robert Soufer; Barry L Zaret
Effects of mental stress on left ventricular and peripheral vascular performance in patients with coronary artery disease.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1998;31(6):1314-22.
1998: Gary V Heller; Stephen A Stowers; Robert Charles Hendel; SD Herman; Edouard Daher; Alan W Ahlberg; J M Baron; C F Mendes de Leon; J A Rizzo; Frans J Th Wackers
Clinical value of acute rest technetium-99m tetrofosmin tomographic myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with acute chest pain and nondiagnostic electrocardiograms.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1998;31(5):1011-7.
1998: E Gordon DePuey; S Port; Frans J Th Wackers; Alan Rozanski; Elias H Botvinick; Michael W Dae; N Tamaki
Nonperfusion applications in nuclear cardiology: report of a task force of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1998;5(2):218-31.
1998: J C Wu; J J Yun; Eliot Heller; Donald P Dione; P DeMan; Yi-Hwa Liu; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers; Albert J Sinusas
Limitations of dobutamine for enhancing flow heterogeneity in the presence of single coronary stenosis: implications for technetium-99m-sestamibi imaging.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1998;39(3):417-25.
1998: Brian Abbott; Frans J Th Wackers
Emergency department chest pain units and the role of radionuclide imaging.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1998;5(1):73-9.
1997: Eliot Heller; P DeMan; Yi-Hwa Liu; Donald P Dione; I George Zubal; Frans J Th Wackers; Albert J Sinusas
Extracardiac activity complicates quantitative cardiac SPECT imaging using a simultaneous transmission-emission approach.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1997;38(12):1882-90.
1997: James A Arrighi; CK Ng; HM Dey; Frans J Th Wackers; Robert Soufer
Effect of left ventricular function on the assessment of myocardial viability by technectium-99m sestamibi and correlation with positron emission tomography in patients with healed myocardial infarcts or stable angina pectoris, or both.
The American journal of cardiology 1997;80(8):1007-13.
1997: C Gradel; Diwakar Jain; William P Batsford; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Relationship of scar and ischemia to the results of programmed electrophysiological stimulation in patients with coronary artery disease.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1997;4(5):379-86.
1997: Diwakar Jain; B Thompson; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Relevance of increased lung thallium uptake on stress imaging in patients with unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction: results of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI)-IIIB Study.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1997;30(2):421-9.
1997: Frans J Th Wackers; T M Bateman
Blueprint of the certification examination in nuclear cardiology. Certification Council of Nuclear Cardiology.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1997;4(2 Pt 1):164-8.
1996: Frans J Th Wackers
Are separate normal data files required for quantitative pharmacologic stress radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging?
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1996;3(6 Pt 2):S31-40.
1996: H M Siebelink; D Natale; Albert J Sinusas; Frans J Th Wackers
Quantitative comparison of single-isotope and dual-isotope stress-rest single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging for reversibility of defects.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1996;3(6 Pt 1):483-93.
1996: H Naruse; E Daher; Albert J Sinusas; Diwakar Jain; D Natale; Jennifer A Mattera; R Makuch; Frans J Th Wackers
Quantitative comparison of planar and SPECT normal data files of thallium-201, technetium-99m-sestamibi, technetium-99m-tetrofosmin and technetium-99m-furifosmin.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1996;37(11):1783-8.
1996: Yi-Hwa Liu; Albert J Sinusas; C Q Shi; M Y Shen; Donald P Dione; Eliot Heller; Frans J Th Wackers
Quantification of technetium 99m-labeled sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography based on mean counts improves accuracy for assessment of relative regional myocardial blood flow: experimental validation in a canine model.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1996;3(4):312-20.
1996: P P Verhoeven; F A Lee; T M Ramahi; K L Franco; Carlos F Mendes De Leon; J Amatruda; N A Gorham; Jennifer A Mattera; Frans J Th Wackers
Prognostic value of noninvasive testing one year after orthotopic cardiac transplantation.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1996;28(1):183-9.
1996: HM Dey; Robert Soufer; PB Hoffer; Frans J Th Wackers; H R Black
Comparison of nifedipine GITS and hydrochlorothiazide in the management of elderly patients with stage I-III diastolic hypertension.
American journal of hypertension 1996;9(6):598-606.
1996: N van Royen; C C Jaffe; Harlan Krumholz; K M Johnson; P J Lynch; D Natale; P Atkinson; P DeMan; Frans J Th Wackers
Comparison and reproducibility of visual echocardiographic and quantitative radionuclide left ventricular ejection fractions.
The American journal of cardiology 1996;77(10):843-50.
1995: Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers; Michael L Terrin; Sandra A Forman; David O Williams; Genell L Knatterud; Eugene Braunwald
Value of radionuclide rest and exercise left ventricular ejection fraction in assessing survival of patients after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: results of Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) phase II study. The TIMI Study Group.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1995;26(1):73-9.
1995: C Q Shi; Albert J Sinusas; Donald P Dione; M J Singer; Lawrence H Young; Eliot Heller; B D Rinker; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Technetium-99m-nitroimidazole (BMS181321): a positive imaging agent for detecting myocardial ischemia.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1995;36(6):1078-86.
1995: Robert Soufer; HM Dey; A J Lawson; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Relationship between reverse redistribution on planar thallium scintigraphy and regional myocardial viability: a correlative PET study.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1995;36(2):180-7.
1995: Barry L Zaret; Pierre Rigo; Frans J Th Wackers; Robert Charles Hendel; S H Braat; A S Iskandrian; B S Sridhara; Diwakar Jain; Roland Itti; Aldo N Serafini
Myocardial perfusion imaging with 99mTc tetrofosmin. Comparison to 201Tl imaging and coronary angiography in a phase III multicenter trial. Tetrofosmin International Trial Study Group.
Circulation 1995;91(2):313-9.
1995: Frans J Th Wackers
The birth of a new radiopharmaceutical. Clinical investigative perspective.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1995;2(1):75-7.
1994: Frans J Th Wackers
Science, art, and artifacts: how important is quantification for the practicing physician interpreting myocardial perfusion studies?
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1994;1(5 Pt 2):S109-17.
1994: K Raiker; Albert J Sinusas; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
One-year prognosis of patients with normal planar or single-photon emission computed tomographic technetium 99m-labeled sestamibi exercise imaging.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1994;1(5 Pt 1):449-56.
1994: Frans J Th Wackers
Radionuclide evaluation of coronary artery disease in the 1990s. Choosing the best stress, best tracer, best technique.
Cardiology clinics 1994;12(2):385-9.
1994: Frans J Th Wackers
Exercise myocardial perfusion imaging.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1994;35(4):726-9.
1994: Albert J Sinusas; Q Shi; M T Saltzberg; P Vitols; Diwakar Jain; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Technetium-99m-tetrofosmin to assess myocardial blood flow: experimental validation in an intact canine model of ischemia.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1994;35(4):664-71.
1994: Frans J Th Wackers
The maze of myocardial perfusion imaging protocols in 1994.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1994;1(2 Pt 1):180-8.
1994: H L Haronian; Albert J Sinusas; Michael S Remetz; Joseph J Brennan; H S Cabin; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Effects of altered left ventricular geometry on quantitative technetium 99m sestamibi defect size in humans: perfusion imaging during coronary angioplasty.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology 1994;1(2 Pt 1):150-8.
1993: A Marmor; Diwakar Jain; L S Cohen; Erez Nevo; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Left ventricular peak power during exercise: a noninvasive approach for assessment of contractile reserve.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1993;34(11):1877-85.
1993: Albert J Sinusas; Q Shi; P J Vitols; R C Fetterman; P Maniawski; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Impact of regional ventricular function, geometry, and dobutamine stress on quantitative 99mTc-sestamibi defect size.
Circulation 1993;88(5 Pt 1):2224-34.
1993: H L Haronian; Michael S Remetz; Albert J Sinusas; J M Baron; H I Miller; Michael W Cleman; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Myocardial risk area defined by technetium-99m sestamibi imaging during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: comparison with coronary angiography.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1993;22(4):1033-43.
1993: Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Nuclear cardiology (2).
The New England journal of medicine 1993;329(12):855-63.
1993: Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Nuclear cardiology (1).
The New England journal of medicine 1993;329(11):775-83.
1993: Diwakar Jain; Frans J Th Wackers; Jennifer A Mattera; M McMahon; Albert J Sinusas; Barry L Zaret
Biokinetics of technetium-99m-tetrofosmin: myocardial perfusion imaging agent: implications for a one-day imaging protocol.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1993;34(8):1254-9.
1993: Frans J Th Wackers; M Bodenheimer; J L Fleiss; M Brown
Factors affecting uniformity in interpretation of planar thallium-201 imaging in a multicenter trial. The Multicenter Study on Silent Myocardial Ischemia (MSSMI) Thallium-201 Investigators.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1993;21(5):1064-74.
1993: Albert J Sinusas; Frans J Th Wackers
Assessing myocardial reperfusion with technetium-99m-labeled myocardial perfusion agents: basic concepts and clinical applications.
American journal of cardiac imaging 1993;7(1):24-38.
1992: Frans J Th Wackers
Comparison of thallium-201 and technetium-99m methoxyisobutyl isonitrile.
The American journal of cardiology 1992;70(14):30E-34E.
1992: Frans J Th Wackers
Artifacts in planar and SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging.
American journal of cardiac imaging 1992;6(1):42-57; discussion 58.
1991: D S Kayden; S Sigal; Robert Soufer; Jennifer A Mattera; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Thallium-201 for assessment of myocardial viability: quantitative comparison of 24-hour redistribution imaging with imaging after reinjection at rest.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1991;18(6):1480-6.
1991: Frans J Th Wackers
Myocardial perfusion imaging in ischemic heart disease anno 1990.
Current opinion in cardiology 1991;6(4):590-601.
1991: D S Kayden; Michael S Remetz; H S Cabin; L I Deckelbaum; Michael W Cleman; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Validation of continuous radionuclide left ventricular functioning monitoring in detecting silent myocardial ischemia during balloon angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery.
The American journal of cardiology 1991;67(16):1339-43.
1991: P J Maniawski; H T Morgan; Frans J Th Wackers
Orbit-related variation in spatial resolution as a source of artifactual defects in thallium-201 SPECT.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1991;32(5):871-5.
1991: S L Sigal; Robert Soufer; R C Fetterman; Jennifer A Mattera; Frans J Th Wackers
Reproducibility of quantitative planar thallium-201 scintigraphy: quantitative criteria for reversibility of myocardial perfusion defects.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1991;32(5):759-65.
1990: Frans J Th Wackers
Thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction: assessment of efficacy by myocardial perfusion imaging with technetium-99m sestamibi.
The American journal of cardiology 1990;66(13):36E-41E.
1990: K Koster; Frans J Th Wackers; Jennifer A Mattera; R C Fetterman
Quantitative analysis of planar technetium-99m-sestamibi myocardial perfusion images using modified background subtraction.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1990;31(8):1400-8.
1990: Patricia A Pellikka; Thomas R Behrenbeck; M S Verani; J J Mahmarian; Frans J Th Wackers; Raymond J Gibbons
Serial changes in myocardial perfusion using tomographic technetium-99m-hexakis-2-methoxy-2-methylpropyl-isonitrile imaging following reperfusion therapy of myocardial infarction.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1990;31(8):1269-75.
1990: D S Kayden; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Silent left ventricular dysfunction during routine activity after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1990;15(7):1500-7.
1990: Frans J Th Wackers
Pharmacologic stress with dipyridamole: how lazy can one be?
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1990;31(6):1024-7.
1989: Raymond J Gibbons; M S Verani; Thomas R Behrenbeck; Patricia A Pellikka; Michael K O'Connor; J J Mahmarian; J H Chesebro; Frans J Th Wackers
Feasibility of tomographic 99mTc-hexakis-2-methoxy-2-methylpropyl-isonitrile imaging for the assessment of myocardial area at risk and the effect of treatment in acute myocardial infarction.
Circulation 1989;80(5):1277-86.
1989: Frans J Th Wackers; Raymond J Gibbons; M S Verani; D S Kayden; Patricia A Pellikka; Thomas R Behrenbeck; J J Mahmarian; Barry L Zaret
Serial quantitative planar technetium-99m isonitrile imaging in acute myocardial infarction: efficacy for noninvasive assessment of thrombolytic therapy.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1989;14(4):861-73.
1989: D C Farlow; M D Ezekowitz; S R Rao; C Martinez; D F Denny; S S Morse; J S Decho; Frans J Th Wackers; E Strauss
Early image acquisition after administration of indium-111 platelets in clinically suspected deep venous thrombosis.
The American journal of cardiology 1989;64(5):363-8.
1989: Frans J Th Wackers; Michael L Terrin; D S Kayden; Genell L Knatterud; Sandra Forman; Eugene Braunwald; Barry L Zaret
Quantitative radionuclide assessment of regional ventricular function after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: results of phase I Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trial.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1989;13(5):998-1005.
1989: Frans J Th Wackers; D S Berman; J Maddahi; Denny Watson; George A Beller; Harry W Strauss; C A Boucher; M Picard; B L Holman; R Fridrich
Technetium-99m hexakis 2-methoxyisobutyl isonitrile: human biodistribution, dosimetry, safety, and preliminary comparison to thallium-201 for myocardial perfusion imaging.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1989;30(3):301-11.
1989: William J Rogers; Robert Bourge; S E Papapietro; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret; Sandra Forman; H T Dodge; T L Robertson; E R Passamani; Eugene Braunwald
Variables predictive of good functional outcome following thrombolytic therapy in the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction phase II (TIMI II) pilot study.
The American journal of cardiology 1989;63(9):503-12.
1989: Frans J Th Wackers
Clinical assessment of myocardial perfusion with thallium-201.
Bibliotheca cardiologica 1989;(44):60-76; discussion 76-8.
1988: D S Kayden; Jennifer A Mattera; Barry L Zaret; Frans J Th Wackers
Demonstration of reperfusion after thrombolysis with technetium-99m isonitrile myocardial imaging.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 1988;29(11):1865-7.
1988: L K Bowman; F A Lee; C C Jaffe; Jennifer A Mattera; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
Peak filling rate normalized to mitral stroke volume: a new Doppler echocardiographic filling index validated by radionuclide angiographic techniques.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1988;12(4):937-43.
1988: P T Sager; R A Perlmutter; Lynda E Rosenfeld; Craig A McPherson; Frans J Th Wackers; William P Batsford
Electrophysiologic effects of thrombolytic therapy in patients with a transmural anterior myocardial infarction complicated by left ventricular aneurysm formation.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1988;12(1):19-24.
1988: C K Chan; J Loke; P E Snyder; Frans J Th Wackers; Jennifer A Mattera; R A Matthay
Oral terbutaline augments cardiac performance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The American journal of the medical sciences 1988;296(1):33-8.
1988: D S Kayden; Frans J Th Wackers; Barry L Zaret
The role of nuclear cardiology in assessment of acute myocardial infarction.
Cardiology clinics 1988;6(1):81-95.
1987: Frans J Th Wackers
The diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle branch block.
Cardiology clinics 1987;5(3):393-401.