Assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction by four different methods using 99mtc tetrofosmin gated spect in patients with small hearts: correlation with gated blood pool

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 885-893

  Khalil, Magdy M ^a   Elgazzar, Abdelhamid ^b   Khalil, Wafaa ^c   Omar, Abdelmoniem ^c   Ziada, Gaber ^c  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c MUBARAK AL KABEER HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Equilibrium gated blood pool; Gated SPECT; Small heart

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 26444521659     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200510000-00007     Document Type: Article

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