A new radionuclide approach for the quantification of left ventricular volumes: the ‘geometric count based’ method

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 915-924

  Veljovic, M ^a   Sobic saranovic D P ^a   Pavlovic, S ^a   Kozarevic, N D J ^a   Bosnjakovic, V B ^a  

^a SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Computed background; Geometric count based method; Left ventricular volume

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCTION; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWINS;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULOGRAPHY, FIRST-PASS;

EID: 2342507909     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000084580.51410.0f     Document Type: Article

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