Influence of image quality on the accuracy of real time three-dimensional echocardiography to measure left ventricular volumes in unselected patients: A comparison with gated-SPECT imaging

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1073-1080

  Tighe, Dennis A ^a   Rosetti, Mihaela ^a   Vinch, Craig S ^a   Chandok, Dinesh ^a   Muldoon, Diane ^a   Wiggin, Barbara ^a   Dahlberg, Seth T ^a   Aurigemma, Gerard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac volumes; Gated SPECT imaging; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM 201;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SELECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 36248961677     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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