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Chest, Vol 84, 6-13, Copyright © 1983 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Estimation of absolute left ventricular volume from gated radionuclide ventriculograms. A method using phase image assisted automated edge detection and two-dimensional echocardiography

JH Thomsen, AK Patel, BR Rowe, RS Hellman, P Kosolcharoen, AJ Feiring, T Filipek, JR Halama and RE Polcyn

Twenty-four patients underwent gated cardiac blood pool (GBP) imaging, two-dimensional echocardiography (2-D echo), and single-plane contrast ventriculography (within 24 hours). Variable left ventricular (LV) regions of interest on GBP images were identified by an automated threshold radial search. To avoid excluding LV counts we indexed the search threshold to the threshold identified by a phase image generated by Fourier analysis. LV depth calculated by 2-D echo was used for attenuation correction of LV counts. LV end-diastolic volume (EDV) and end-systolic volume (ESV) were calculated by dividing attenuation, background and deadtime corrected LV count rates by the background corrected count rate/ml of venous blood drawn during the study. Correlations between radionuclide and contrast volumes were good (EDV + ESV r = 0.97, EDV r = 0.94, ESV r = 0.95). Regression lines were close to the lines of identity. This method, in which GBP imaging and automated LV edge finding are complemented by 2-D echo for count attenuation correction, demonstrated reliable and reproducible noninvasive estimates of absolute LV volume.


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