Validation of a new automated method for analysis of gated-SPECT images

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 139-145

  Lomsky, Milan ^a   Richter, Jens ^b   Johansson, Lena ^a   Høilund Carlsen, Poul F ^c   Edenbrandt, Lars ^a,d  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b WeAidU in Europe AB   (Sweden)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer assisted diagnosis; Gated SPECT; Heart disease; Image processing; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GATED IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADENOSINE; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33646021281     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2006.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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