A realistic 3-D gated cardiac phantom for quality control of gated myocardial perfusion SPET: The Amsterdam gated (AGATE) cardiac phantom

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 222-228

  Visser, Jacco J N ^a   Sokole, Ellinor Busemann ^a   Verberne, Hein J ^a   Habraken, Jan B A ^a   Van De Stadt, Huybert J F ^a   Jaspers, Joris E N ^a   Shehata, Morgan ^a   Heeman, Paul M ^a   Van Eck Smit, Berthe L F ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gated cardiac phantom; Gated SPET; QGS; Quality control

Indexed keywords

AMSTERDAM GATED CARDIAC PHANTOM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NETHERLANDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0842312343     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-003-1352-5     Document Type: Article

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