Left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes on rest gated Tl perfusion SPECT: Comparison with two-dimensional echocardiography

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 425-429

  Patel, Chetan D ^a   Nadig, Murali R ^a   Kurien, Sumodh ^a   Barai, Sukanta ^a   Narang, Rajeev ^a   Malhotra, Arun ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; THALLIUM; THALLIUM CHLORIDE; THALLIUM DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMATE TL 201;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REST; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REST; STROKE VOLUME; THALLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33745947421     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200605000-00003     Document Type: Article

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