Comparison of two software in gated myocardial perfusion single photon emission tomography, for the measurement of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction, in patients with and without perfusion defects

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-23

  Dabbagh Kakhki, Vahid Reza ^a   Zakavi, Seyed Rasoul ^a   Sadeghi, Ramin ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Gated SPET; Left ventricular volume; Perfusion defects; Summed rest score

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247895503     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: 17905427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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