Effect of perfusion pattern and imaging sequence on gated perfusion SPECT evaluation of myocardial stunning

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 176-183

  Manrique, Alain ^a   Hitzel, Anne ^a   Brasse, David ^a   Véra, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

Author keywords

Cardiology; Gated SPECT; Imaging sequence; Myocardial stunning; Perfusion; Technetium

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GATED IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PERFUSION; HEART STRESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE TEST; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 15044351963     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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