Quantitative single-photon emission computed tomography imaging

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-142

  Germano, Guido ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; GATED IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 20644446077     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-005-0026-2     Document Type: Review

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