Automatic quantification of left ventricular ejection fraction from gated blood pool SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 498-506

  Van Kriekinge, Serge D ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Germano, Guido ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Blood pool SPECT; LVEF; Surface extraction

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIASTOLE; ENDOCARDIUM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032718194     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-3581(99)90022-3     Document Type: Article

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