Evaluation of left and right ventricular functional parameters with automatic edge detection program of ecg gated blood spet

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 559-563

  Higuchi, T ^a   Taki, J ^a   Nakajima, K ^a   Kinuya, S ^b   Ikeda, M ^b   Namura, M ^b   Tonami, N ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA CARDIOVASCULAR HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pool scintigraphy; ECG gated SPECT; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Right ventricular ejection fraction.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 1542390809     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200305000-00012     Document Type: Article

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