Prone versus supine patient positioning during gated 99mTc- sestamibi SPECT: Effect on left ventricular volumes, ejection fraction, and heart rate

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2016-2020

  Schaefer, Wolfgang M ^a   Lipke, Claudia S A ^a   Kühl, Harald P ^a   Koch, Karl Christian ^a   Kaiser, Hans Juergen ^a   Reinartz, Patrick ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^a   Buell, Udalrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Heart rate; Left ventricular volumes; Prone versus supine

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GATED IMAGING; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; STROKE VOLUME; SUPINE POSITION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 16644402507     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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