Dr. Richard C Brunken MD
Nuclear Medicine Specialist
9500 Euclid Ave Department Of Nuclea Cleveland OH, 44195About
Dr. Richard Brunken practices Nuclear Medicine in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Brunken uses procedures and treatments that apply molecular imaging and molecular therapy. Nuclear Medicine Physicians are trained and certified to provide such procedures as skeletal imaging, glucose metabolic imaging, brain perfusion, blood pool imaging, and thyroid imaging, among many others.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Independent contribution of myocardial perfusion defects to exercise capacity and heart rate recovery for prediction of all-cause mortality in patients with known or suspected coronary heart disease.
- Does chronic ST segment elevation following Q wave myocardial infarction exclude tissue viability?
- Importance of ischemic and viable myocardium for patients with chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation and left ventricular dysfunction.
- Mutual information-based multimodality registration of cardiac ultrasound and SPECT images: a preliminary investigation.
- Ischemic and viable myocardium in patients with non-Q-wave or Q-wave myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction: a clinical study using positron emission tomography, echocardiography, and electrocardiography.
- Do implanted pacemaker leads and ICD leads cause metal-related artifact in cardiac PET/CT?
- A knowledge-based method for reducing attenuation artefacts caused by cardiac appliances in myocardial PET/CT.
- Challenges for measurement of myocardial perfusion and perfusion reserve by SPECT
- Acute vertebral body fracture visualized on SPECT MPI study.
- Rubidium-82 uptake in metastases from pheochromocytoma on PET myocardial perfusion images.
- Cardiac positron emission tomography: the foundations and clinical applications.
- Ischemic changes on rubidium-82 positron emission tomography imaging are associated with left ventricular functional and volumetric change independent of metabolic properties and echocardiographic functional variables in ischemic cardiomyopathy.
- Why LV dilatation with vasodilator stress in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
- Promising New 18F-Labeled Tracers for PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.
- Impact of Time-of-Flight Reconstruction on Cardiac PET Images of Obese Patients.
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