title: The time has come to standardize (123)I-MIBG heart-to-mediastinum ratios including planar and SPECT methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan. nakajima@med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Japan.
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okuda
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuo
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, CHU Côte de Nacre, Normandy University EA 4650, Caen, France.
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Agostini
mesh_terms: D019797:3-Iodobenzylguanidine; D005260:Female; D015902:Gamma Cameras; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019797:3-Iodobenzylguanidine