Left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction calculated from quantitative electrocardiographic-gated 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1693-1698

  Yoshioka, Jim ^a   Hasegawa, Shinji ^a   Yamaguchi, Hitoshi ^a   Tokita, Naoki ^a   Paul, Asit K ^a   Xiuli, Mu ^a   Maruyama, Atsushi ^a   Hori, Masatsugu ^a   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc tetrofosmin; Automatic ejection fraction quantitation; Contrast left ventriculography; First pass radionuclide angiography; Gated SPECT

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PERFUSION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 0032887508     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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