Comparison of 16-frame and 8-frame gated SPET imaging for determination of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1330-1337

  Navare, Sachin M ^a   Wackers, Frans J T ^a   Liu, Yi Hwa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Gated SPET; LV volumes

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0141892845     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-003-1231-0     Document Type: Article

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