Clinical evaluation of a fully automated model-based algorithm to calculate left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction using multidetector computed tomography

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-51

  Ghersin, Eduard ^a,b,c,d   Abadi, Sobhi ^a   Yalonetsky, Sergey ^a   Engel, Ahuva ^a,b   Lessick, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Cardiac volume; Computed tomography; Imaging; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CARDIAC VOLUME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67049109140     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482940802588317     Document Type: Article

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