Comparison of ECG-gated versus non-gated CT ventricular measurements in thirty patients with acute pulmonary embolism

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-107

  Lu, Michael T ^a   Cai, Tianxi ^b   Ersoy, Hale ^a   Whitmore, Amanda G ^a   Levit, Noah A ^a   Goldhaber, Samuel Z ^a   Rybicki, Frank J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; ECG gating; Pulmonary embolism; Right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 56949094158     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-008-9342-0     Document Type: Article

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