Automatic quantitation of regional myocardial wall motion and thickening from gated technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1360-1367

  Germano, Guido ^a,b   Erel, Jacob ^a,b   Lewin, Howard ^a,b   Kavanagh, Paul B ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a Dept Med Div Nucl Med Dept I ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 0030810148     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00276-3     Document Type: Article

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