Quantification of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from Gated99mTc-MIBI SPECT: MRI validation and comparison of the emory cardiac tool box with QGS and 4D-MSPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1256-1263

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D MSPECT; Cardiovascular MRI; Ejection fraction; Emory Cardiac Tool Box; Gated 99mTc MIBI SPECT; Left ventricular volumes; Quantitative Gated SPECT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STROKE VOLUME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

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