Repeatability of left ventricular ejection fraction and volume measurement for 99mtc-tetrofosmin gated single photon emission computed tomography (spect)

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-349

  Thorley, Penelope J ^a   Smith, Jennifer M ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Gated SPECT; Left ventricular volumes; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 16244387339     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200504000-00007     Document Type: Article

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