Quantification of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction from gated 99mTc-MIBI SPECT: Validation of an elastic surface model approach in comparison to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, 4D-MSPECT and QGS

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 900-909

  Stegger, Lars ^a   Lipke, Claudia S A ^b   Kies, Peter ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^b   Schober, Otmar ^a   Buell, Udalrich ^b   Schäfers, Michael ^a   Schaefer, Wolfgang M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ejection fraction; Left ventricular function; MRI; Myocardial perfusion; SPECT

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34249079447     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-006-0322-0     Document Type: Article

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