Image enhancement of severely hypoperfused myocardia for computation of tomographic ejection fraction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1411-1417

  Nichols, Kenneth ^a,b   DePuey, E Gordon ^a   Rozanski, Alan ^a   Salensky, Helene ^a   Friedman, Marvin I ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Gated SPECT; Image enhancement

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030984052     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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