An investigation of the estimation of ejection fractions and cardiac volumes by a quantitative gated SPECT software package in simulated gated SPECT images

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 144-152

  Achtert, Anne Doerte ^b   King, Michael A ^a   Dahlberg, Seth T ^b   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^b   LaCroix, Karen J ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GATED IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VOLUME; LIVER METABOLISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031923598     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(98)90197-0     Document Type: Article

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