Evaluation of right and left ventricular function by quantitative blood-pool SPECT (QBS): Comparison with conventional methods and quantitative gated SPECT (QGS)

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 519-526

  Odagiri, Keiichi ^a   Wakabayashi, Yasushi ^b   Tawarahara, Kei ^c   Kurata, Chinori ^d   Urushida, Tsuyoshi ^a   Katoh, Hideki ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashi, Hideharu ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hamamatsu Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^c Hamamatsu Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^d Yamaha Health Care Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

99mTc human serum albumin DTPA; Left ventricular ejection fraction; Quantitative gated blood pool SPECT (QBS); Quantitative gated SPECT (QGS); Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 33751409944     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 09147187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03026815     Document Type: Article

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