Diagnostic value of computer-assisted quantitative radioisotope angiocardiography.
The cardiac cavities and large vessels were studied by radioisotope angiocardiography with 99mTc-labelled albumin, using a gamma-camera linked to Med-II, with subsequent digital scanning and analysis by coloured video unit (VDP2) of the areas of iso-activity. The results are illustrated of 8 cases selected from the aggregate case histories of 78 patients (1 normal, 4 congenital heart disease, 2 rheumatic, 1 cor pulmonale chronicum). The direct observation of the course of the bolus and the activity/time curves in areas of interest in the cardiac cavities and the lungs, together with the representation of the areas of iso-activity, were useful for diagnosis and physiopathological evaluation of the heart conditions in the patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D013667:Technetium
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