Left ventricular mass from gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: Comparison with cardiac computed tomography

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 775-783

  Okwuosa, Tochi M ^a   Hampole, Chetan V ^a   Ali, Javid ^a   Williams, Kim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

4DMSPECT; Computed tomography; Left ventricular mass; Myocardial perfusion imaging: SPECT; Quantitative perfusion SPECT: QPS

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FEMALE; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349652458     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-009-9131-8     Document Type: Article

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