Reproducibility of serial left ventricle perfusion, volume, and ejection fraction measurements using multiplexed multipinhole SPECT in healthy rats and rats after myocardial infarction

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1285-1292

  Strydhorst, Jared H ^a,b   Leenen, Frans H ^a   Ruddy, Terrence D ^a   Wells, R Glenn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT; Multiplexed multipinhole SPECT; Myocardial perfusion; Rats; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE DIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFUSION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIPLEXED MULTIPINHOLE SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE DATABASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GATED BLOOD-POOL IMAGING; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PERFUSION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80051694248     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.088658     Document Type: Article

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