Gated myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients with a small heart: Effect of zooming and filtering

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 404-406

  Kakhki, Vahid Reza Dabbagh ^a   Sadeghi, Ramin ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Filtering; Gated SPECT; Left ventricular volume; Small heart; Zoom

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PERFUSION; SYSTOLE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247498102     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000259629.30918.88     Document Type: Article

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