Myocardial tracking, a new method to calculate ejection fraction with gated SPECT: Validation with 201Tl versus planar angiography

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 845-852

  Itti, E ^a   Rosso, J ^a   Hammami, H ^a   Benayoun, S ^a   Thirion, J P ^a   Meignan, M ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

201Tl; Accuracy; Ejection fraction; Gated SPECT; Precision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034966485     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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