Objectives: This paper presents an efficient approach for extracting myocardial structures from given atrial and ventricular blood masses to enable non-invasive estimation of electrical excitation in human atria and ventricles. Methods: Based on given segmented atrial and ventricular blood masses, the approach constructs the myocardial structure directly, in the case that the myocardium can be detected in the volume data, or by using mean model information, in the case that the myocardium cannot be seen in the volume data due to image modalities or artefacts...
Keywords: myocardium, Algorithms, morphological operations
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerAlpha- and beta-adrenoceptors play an important role in the control of heart function. According to their molecular, biological, and pharmacological characteristics, they are subdivided into 1-, 2- and 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-adrenoceptors...
Keywords: Adrenozeptoren, Myokard, PET
01/2003 | Nuklearmedizin, SchattauerAIM: Identification of a rationale for the appropriate uptake period for myocardial 18F-FDG-PET imaging of patients with and without diabetes mellitus. METHODS: In a subset of 27 patients, static 2D-PET examination was performed of patients with chronic coronary artery disease and known myocardial infarction...
Keywords: Vitalität, Myokard, 18 F-FDG-PET, Uptake
01/2003 | Nuklearmedizin, Schattauer