Comparison among tomographic radionuclide ventriculography algorithms for computing left and right ventricular normal limits

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 675-684

  De Bondt, Pieter ^a,b   Nichols, Kenneth J ^c   De Winter, Olivier ^b   De Sutter, Johan ^a,d   Vanderheyden, Marc ^a   Akinboboye, Olakunle O ^e   Dierckx, Rudi Andre ^b,f  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d AZ Maria Middelares ^*  (Belgium)

^e ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cardiac volumes; ejection fraction; gated blood pool SPECT; left ventricle; Normal limits; right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33748182882     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.06.135     Document Type: Article

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