SPECT versus planar gated blood pool imaging for left ventricular evaluation

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 544-549

  Harel, François ^a   Finnerty, Vincent ^a   Ngo, Quam ^a   Grégoire, Jean ^a   Khairy, Paul ^a   Thibault, Bernard ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gated blood pool imaging; left ventricular ejection fraction

Indexed keywords

AMERSCAN; STANNOUS PYROPHOSPHATE; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34547448295     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2007.04.020     Document Type: Article

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