The value of a completely automatic ecg gated blood pool spect processing method for the estimation of global systolic left ventricular function

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 271-276

  Daou, Doumit ^a   Coaguila, Carlos ^a   Benada, Abdel ^a   Razzouk, Micheline ^a   Haidar, Mohamed ^a   Colin, Patrice ^a   Lebtahi, Rachida ^a   Slama, Michel ^a   Guludec, Domique Le ^a  

^a Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac radionuclide angiography; Gated blood pool SPECT; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Left ventricular function; Left ventricular volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC VOLUME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 1642341650     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200403000-00010     Document Type: Article

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