Validation of planar and tomographic radionuclide ventriculography by a dynamic ventricular phantom

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 771-777

  DE BONDT, P ^a   Vandenberghe, S ^a   DE MEY, S ^a   Segers, P ^a   DE WINTER, O ^a   DE SUTTER, J ^a   Van de wiele, C ^a   Verdonck, P ^a   Dierckx, R A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic phantom.; Tomographic radionuclide ventriculography; Validation

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIRCRAFT; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 2142748556     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000080244.50447.ef     Document Type: Article

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