Reproducibility of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction measurements in rat using pinhole gated SPECT

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-220

  Vanhove, Christian ^a   Lahoutte, Tony ^a   Defrise, Michel ^a   Bossuyt, Axel ^a   Franken, Philippe R ^a  

^a AZ VUB Nuclear Medicine Jette   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood poool; Left ventricular function; Myocardial perfusion; Pinhole gated SPECT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FOLLOW UP; GEOMETRY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART PERFUSION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 13844250299     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-004-1649-z     Document Type: Article

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