Automatic and visual reproducibility of perfusion and function measures for myocardial perfusion SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1050-1057

  Xu, Yuan ^a   Hayes, Sean ^a   Ali, Iftikhar ^b   Ruddy, Terrence D ^b   Wells, R Glenn ^b   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Germano, Guido ^a,c   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial perfusion imaging; Reproducibility; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART SIZE; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 78651333997     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9297-0     Document Type: Article

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