Left ventricular ejection and filling rate measurement based on the automatic edge detection method of ECG-gated blood pool single-photon emission tomography

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 507-511

  Higuchi, Takahiro ^a,b   Taki, Junichi ^a   Nakajima, Kenichi ^a   Kinuya, Seigo ^a   Ikeda, Masatoshi ^b   Namura, Masanobu ^b   Tonami, Norihisa ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA CARDIOVASCULAR HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pool scintigraphy; Ejection fraction; Ejection rate; Filling rate; Gated SPET

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC EDGE DETECTION METHOD; AUTOMATION; BLOOD POOL SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GATED IMAGING; HEART CYCLE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 6944230709     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02984568     Document Type: Article

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