A 'hybrid' method for measuring myocardial wall thickening from gated PET/SPECT images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 324-329

  Buvat, Irène ^b   Bartlett, Marissa L ^b   Kitsiou, Anastasia N ^b   Dilsizian, Vasken ^b   Bacharach, Stephen L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

heart; myocardial wall thickening; receiver operating characteristic curve

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HEART; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031039039     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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