Accuracy of commercially available processing algorithms for planar radionuclide ventriculography using data for a dynamic left ventricular phantom

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1197-1202

  De Bondt, Pieter ^a   De Winter, Olivier ^a   Vandenberghe, Stijn ^a   Vandevijver, Frederic ^a   Segers, Patrick ^a   Bleukx, Art ^a   Ham, Hamphrey ^a   Verdonck, Pascal ^a   Dierckx, Rudi A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic cardiac phantom; Ventriculography

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; NEUROSECRETION; PAROTID GLAND; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 10144229352     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200412000-00008     Document Type: Article

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