Thallium-gated SPECT in patients with major myocardial infarction: Effect of filtering and zooming in comparison with equilibrium radionuclide imaging and left ventriculography

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 513-521

  Véra, Pierre ^a,b   Manrique, Alain ^a   Pontvianne, Valérie ^a   Hitzel, Anne ^a   Koning, René ^a   Cribier, Alain ^a  

^a HÔPITAL CHARLES NICOLLE   (France)

^b CENTRE HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Myocardial infarction; Thallium

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0344026161     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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