Influence of arrhythmias on gated SPECT myocardial perfusion and function quantification

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 924-934

  Nichols, Kenneth ^a,b   Dorbala, Sharmila ^a   DePuey, E Gordon ^a   Yao, Siu Sun ^a   Sharma, Atul ^a   Rozanski, Alan ^a  

^a St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Function; Gated SPECT; Perfusion; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIA; CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033057827     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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