Assessment of Cardiac Wall Motion and Ejection Fraction with Gated PET Using N-13 Ammonia

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-248

  Hickey, Kathleen T ^a   Sciacca, Robert R ^a   Bokhari, Sabahat ^a   Rodriguez, Oswaldo ^a   Chou, Ru Ling ^a   Faber, Tracy L ^b   Cooke, C David ^b   Garcia, Ernest V ^b   Nichols, Kenneth ^a   Bergmann, Steven R ^a  

^a Coll Phys/Surgs Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gating; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Nitrogen 13 ammonia; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AMMONIA; CARDIAC VOLUME; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 12144286202     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000118001.14457.c3     Document Type: Article

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