An improved method for automatic segmentation of the left ventricle in myocardial perfusion SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-213

  Soneson, Helen ^a   Ubachs, Joey F A ^a   Ugander, Martin ^a   Arheden, Håkan ^a   Heiberg, Einar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cardiac left ventricle; Left ventricular mass; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial perfusion SPECT; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DOBUTAMINE; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 59249102372     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.057323     Document Type: Article

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