Instrumentation and data processing in cardiovascular nuclear medicine: Evaluation of Ventricular function

Real-Time Radionuclide Cineangiography in the Noninvasive Evaluation of Global and Regional Left Ventricular Function at Rest and during Exercise in Patients with Coronary-Artery Disease

1977 • 782 citations

Thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging at rest and during exercise. Comparative sensitivity to electrocardiography in coronary artery disease.

1977 • 471 citations

Myocardial imaging with thallium-201 at rest and during exercise. Comparison with coronary arteriography and resting and stress electrocardiography.

1977 • 425 citations

A scintiphotographic method for measuring left ventricular ejection fraction in man without cardiac catheterization

1971 • 411 citations

Analysis of left ventricular function from multiple gated acquisition cardiac blood pool imaging. Comparison to contrast angiography.

1977 • 301 citations

Cardiac Function at Rest and During Exercise in Normals and in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

1978 • 291 citations

Assessment of cardiac performance with quantitative radionuclide angiocardiography: Right ventricular ejection fraction with reference to findings in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1978 • 281 citations

Exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with aortic regurgitation: Assessment with radionuclide cineangiography

1978 • 260 citations

A Noninvasive Scintiphotographic Method for Detecting Regional Ventricular Dysfunction in Man

1971 • 215 citations

Myocardial imaging with thallium-201: A multicenter study in patients with angina pectoris or acute myocardial infarction

1978 • 212 citations

Transient defects of resting thallium scans in patients with coronary artery disease.

1979 • 178 citations

Right ventricular ejection fraction in patients with acute anterior and inferior myocardial infarction assessed by radionuclide angiography.

1978 • 175 citations

A new method of multiplanar emission tomography using a seven pinhole collimator and an Anger scintillation camera.

1978 • 162 citations

The radionuclide ejection fraction: a comparison of three radionuclide techniques with contrast angiography.

1977 • 156 citations

Left-ventricular peak ejection rate, filling rate, and ejection fraction--frame rate requirements at rest and exercise: concise communication.

1979 • 155 citations

Effect of nitroglycerin on exercise-induced abnormalities of left ventricular regional function and ejection fraction in coronary artery disease. Assessment by radionuclide clineagiography in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.

1978 • 152 citations

Effects of maximal exercise stress on left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease using first pass radionuclide angiocardiography: a rapid, noninvasive technique for determining ejection fraction and segmental wall motion.

1979 • 144 citations

Ejection fraction image: A noninvasive index of regional left ventricular wall motion

1978 • 144 citations

High temporal resolution ECG-gated scintigraphic angiocardiography.

1975 • 142 citations

Segmental analysis of Ti-201 stress myocardial scintigraphy.

1977 • 134 citations

Cardiac evaluation from radioisotope dynamics.

1972 • 129 citations

Myocardial imaging with intravenously injected thallium-201 in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

1977 • 128 citations

Variability in sequential measures of left ventricular performance assessed with radionuclide angiocardiography

1978 • 125 citations

Reproducibility of thallium-201 myocardial imaging.

1977 • 119 citations

Detection of coronary heart disease using radionuclide determined regional ejection fraction at rest and during handgrip exercise: correlation with coronary arteriography.

1978 • 115 citations

The nuclear stethoscope: A simple device for generation of left ventricular volume curves

1976 • 100 citations

Myocardial infarct quantification in the dog by single photon emission computed tomography.

1978 • 97 citations

Scintiphotographic Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Left Ventricular Aneurysm

1974 • 95 citations

Ejection fraction by count rate from gated images.

1978 • 95 citations

Regional myocardial perfusion in patients with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, at rest and during angina pectoris induced by tachycardia.

1977 • 94 citations

A real-time system for multi-image gated cardiac studies.

1977 • 94 citations

Cardiac chamber imaging: a comparison of red blood cells labeled with Tc-99m in vitro and in vivo.

1978 • 85 citations

New approach to interpretation of technetium-99m pyrophosphate scintigraphy in detection of acute myocardial infarction

1977 • 79 citations

Radionuclide assessment of nitroglycerin influence on abnormal left ventricular segmental contraction in patients with coronary heart disease.

1976 • 68 citations

Quantitative radionuclide angiography in the right anterior oblique view: Comparison with contrast ventriculography

1978 • 67 citations

Radionuclide left ventriculography with the slant hole collimator.

1977 • 62 citations

Transaxial tomographic imaging of canine myocardium with 11C-palmitic acid.

1977 • 61 citations

Quantitative methods in the evaluation of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion images.

1978 • 61 citations

A new technique for the calculation of left ventricular ejection fraction.

1972 • 60 citations

Evaluation of left-ventricular function in normal persons and patients with heart disease.

1978 • 59 citations

Left ventricular volume and ejection fraction determination by radionuclide angiography

1973 • 58 citations

Evaluation of cardiac function and structure with radioactive tracer techniques.

1978 • 58 citations

Determination of ventricular volume by radioisotope-angiography

1969 • 58 citations

Myocardial imaging with thallium-201: an experimental model for analysis of the true myocardial and background image components.

1977 • 56 citations

Detection of left atrial myxoma by gated radionuclide cardiac imaging.

1977 • 55 citations

Assessment of cardiac performance with quantitative radionuclide angiocardiography. Effects of oral propranolol on global and regional left ventricular function in coronary artery disease.

1978 • 53 citations

Myocardial imaging with thallium-201: effect of cardiac drugs on myocardial images and absolute tissue distribution.

1978 • 49 citations

Nontraumatic assessment of left ventricular wall motion and regional stroke volume after myocardial infarction.

1977 • 47 citations

Regional myocardial perfusion abnormalities on xenon-133 imaging in patients with angina pectoris and normal coronary arteries

1977 • 39 citations

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Evaluation by gated cardiac blood pool scanning.

1977 • 38 citations

Deadtime measurements in scintillation cameras under scatter conditions simulating quantitative nuclear cardiography.

1978 • 38 citations

The Measurement of Left Ventricular Function and the Detection of Wall Motion Abnormalities with High Temporal Resolution Ecg-Gated Scintigraphic Angiocardiography

1976 • 32 citations

Thallium-201 myocardial imaging: characterization of the ECG-synchronized images.

1978 • 32 citations

Left-ventricular ejection fraction and segmental wall motion by peripheral first-pass radionuclide angiography.

1978 • 29 citations

Noninvasive nuclear kinecardiography.

1974 • 29 citations

Comparison of different noninvasive methods of infarct sizing during experimental myocardial infarction.

1977 • 29 citations

Three Dimensional Imaging of the Myocardium with Radionuclides

1977 • 22 citations

Effect of spatial distortion on anger camera field-uniformity correction: concise communication.

1979 • 22 citations

Measurement of left ventricular mean circumferential fiber shortening velocity and systolic ejection rate by computerized radionuclide angiocardiography

1976 • 20 citations

Radionuclide left ventricular dV/dt for the assessment of cardiac function in patients with coronary disease.

1979 • 19 citations

Die Methode der radiokardiographischen Funktionsanalyse

1968 • 19 citations

A computer processing system for ECG-gated radioisotope angiography of the human heart

1976 • 17 citations

Quantitative radionuclide angiocardiography in animals with experimental atrial septal defects.

1978 • 16 citations

A new dual-probe system for the rapid bedside assessment of left ventricular function.

1976 • 15 citations

The effect of window fraction on the deadtime of Anger cameras: concise communication.

1977 • 15 citations

Myocardial images in nonacute coronary and noncoronary heart diseases.

1977 • 14 citations

Improved computer definition of regions of interest by using a double-cursor method.

1978 • 11 citations

Camera-kinematography: a nuclear medicine procedure for imaging heart kinetics.

1974 • 11 citations

Performance evaluations of recent wide field scintillation gamma cameras.

1978 • 9 citations

Comparing the performance of two gamma cameras under high counting rates: principles and practice.

1978 • 8 citations

Radionuclide kymography for the assessment of regional myocardial wall motion.

1978 • 6 citations

Collimator evaluation for Tl-201 myocardial imaging.

1978 • 5 citations

Implementation of a digital image superposition algorithm for radionuclide images: an assessment of its accuracy and reproducibility.

1978 • 5 citations

The effect of photon energy on tests of field uniformity in scintillation cameras: concise communication.

1978 • 4 citations

A Computer System For Clinical Nuclear Cardiology

2005 • 4 citations

A field procedure for the quantitative assessment of nuclear imaging cameras.

1978 • 2 citations

Evaluation of Early Myocardial Ischemia with Thallium-201 in the Pig

1977 • 2 citations

A New Data Processing System For Gated Cardiac Studies

2005 • 2 citations

Inexpensive EKG gate for computer-processed cardiac motion study.

1978 • 1 citations

Low Data Loss Acquisition from a Gamma Camera with Subsequent Computer Analysis

1978 • 1 citations