A prospective evaluation of the repeatability of left ventricular ejection fraction measurement by gated SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1237-1243

  Kliner, Dustin ^a   Wang, Li ^b   Winger, Daniel ^b   Follansbee, William P ^a   Soman, Prem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ejection fraction; Gated SPECT; LV function; repeatability

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; GADOLINIUM 153; REGADENOSON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERA; GATED SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECT SCANNER; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARDIAC-GATED SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84947489585     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-015-0071-1     Document Type: Article

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