Left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes from gated blood-pool SPECT: Comparison with planar gated blood-pool imaging and assessment of repeatability in patients with heart failure

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 494-498

  Wright, Graham A ^a   Thackray, Simon ^b   Howey, Syd ^a   Cleland, John G ^b  

^a HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pool SPECT; Ejection fraction; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GATED IMAGING; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0038654397     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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