Positron emission tomography in the assessment of left ventricular function in healthy rats: A comparison of four imaging methods

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 262-274

  Todica, Andrei ^a   Böning, Guido ^a   Lehner, Sebastian ^a   Weidl, Eliane ^b   Cumming, Paul ^a   Wängler, Carmen ^a,c   Nekolla, Stephan G ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^b   Bartenstein, Peter ^a   Schirrmacher, Ralf ^c   Hacker, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

blood pool imaging; Left ventricular ejection fraction; magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; rat heart

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN GA 68; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD POOL SCINTISCANNING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84879504933     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-012-9663-1     Document Type: Article

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