Evaluation of left ventricular endocardial volumes and ejection fractions computed from gated perfusion SPECT with magnetic resonance imaging: Comparison of two methods

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 645-651

  Faber, Tracy L ^a   Vansant, Johnathan P ^a   Pettigrew, Roderic I ^a   Galt, James R ^a   Blais, Michel ^a   Chatzimavroudis, George ^b   Cooke, C David ^a   Folks, Russell D ^a   Waldrop, Sandra M ^a   Gurtler Krawczynska, Elzbieta ^a   Wittry, Mark D ^c   Garcia, Ernest V ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cleveland State University   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Left ventricle; Magnetic resonance; Quantitative gated single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEVICE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 18044368618     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mnc.2001.117173     Document Type: Article

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