Model dependence of gated blood pool SPECT ventricular function measurements

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 282-292

  Nichols, Kenneth ^a,e   Humayun, Naeem ^a   De Bondt, Pieter ^b   Vandenberghe, Stijn ^c   Akinboboye, Olakunle O ^d   Bergmann, Steven R ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Count threshold methods; Gated blood pool single photon emission computed tomography; Gradient methods; Normal limits

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; PYROPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD POOL SCINTISCANNING; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 3242693453     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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