Comparison of automatic quantification software for the measurement of ventricular volume and ejection fraction in gated myocardial perfusion spect

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-266

  Lum, D P ^a   Coel, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac ejection fraction; Cardiac SPECT; End diastolic volume

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMATION; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 0141430927     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200303000-00005     Document Type: Article

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