Accuracy of ventricular volume and ejection fraction measured by gated myocardial SPECT: Comparison of 4 software programs

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1571-1578

  Nakajima, K ^a   Higuchi, T ^a   Taki, J ^a   Kawano, M ^a   Tonami, N ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Gated SPECT; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Software; Ventricular volume

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034796989     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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