Left Ventricular Mass Measured by Myocardial Perfusion Gated SPECT: Relation to Three-Dimensional Echocardiography

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 392-397

  Akinboboye, Ola ^a   Germano, Guido ^b   Idris, Olajide ^c   Nichols, Kenneth ^c   Gopal, Aasha ^a   Berman, Daniel ^b   Bergmann, Steven R ^c  

^a ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Gated SPECT; Myocardial Mass; Myocardial Perfusion

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THALLIUM 201; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; THALLIUM; THALLIUM CHLORIDE;

ACOUSTIC SPATIAL LOCATOR DEVICE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THALLIUM; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0041735008     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200305000-00006     Document Type: Article

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