Gender differences in ventricular volumes and left ventricle ejection fraction estimated by myocardial perfusion imaging: Comparison of Quantitative Gated SPECT (QGS) and Segami software programs;Diferenças relacionadas ao sexo nos volumes ventriculares e na fração de ejeção do ventrículo esquerdo estimados por cintilografia de perfusão miocárdica: Comparação entre os programas Quantitative Gated SPECT (QGS) e Segami

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Yamada, Alice Tatsuko ^a   Neto, Guilherme De Carvalho Campos ^a   Soares Jr , José ^a   Giorgi, Maria Clementina P ^a   Araújo, Fernando ^a   Meneghetti, José Claudio ^a   Mansur, Alfredo José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Sex; Stroke volume; Tomography, emission computed, single photon

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY SURFACE AREA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34249802341     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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