Cardiac phantom measurement validating the methodology for a cardiac multi-centre trial with positron emission tomography

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1588-1593

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Mortelmans, Luc ^a   Van de Werf, Frans ^a   Djian, Jacques ^b   Sambuceti, Gianmario ^c   Schwaiger, Marcus ^d   Touboul, Paul ^e   Maes, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Wyeth Research   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Defect size; Myocardial perfusion; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; IMAGE DISPLAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; EVALUATION; HEART; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; ISRAEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

PADGEM PROTEIN;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036451981     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-002-0940-0     Document Type: Article

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