Left ventricular function and perfusion from gated SPECT perfusion images: An integrated method

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 650-659

  Faber, Tracy L ^a   Cooke, C David ^b   Folks, Russell D ^b   Vansant, Johnathan P ^b   Nichols, Kenneth J ^b   DePuey, E Gordon ^b   Pettigrew, Roderic I ^b   Garcia, Ernest V ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Gated SPECT; Left ventricular function; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032908274     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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