Comparison of echocardiography with technetium 99m-gated single photon emission computed tomography as diagnostic tools for left ventricular ejection fraction

Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 627-632

  Choragudi, Nagaraju L ^a   Prakash, Anita M ^b   Sun, Ying ^c   Prasad, Paturu ^a   Chiaramida, Salvatore A ^a   Lucariello, Richard J ^a  

^a Our Lady of Mercy Cancer Center   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Bland Altman analysis; Echocardiography; Ejection fraction; Modified Simpson's rule; Receiver operating characteristic; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035701238     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2001.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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