Radiology, Vol 155, 19-23, Copyright © 1985 by Radiological Society of North America

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Videodensitometric ejection fractions from intravenous digital subtraction left ventriculograms: correlation with conventional direct contrast and radionuclide ventriculography

R Detrano, WJ MacIntyre, EE Salcedo, J O'Donnell, DA Underwood, C Simpfendorfer, RT Go, H Jones, K Butters and J Leatherman

Forty-three patients who had undergone direct-contrast ventriculography were submitted to intravenous digital subtraction ventriculography and first-pass radionuclide ventriculography to compare the left ventricular ejection fractions obtained by each method. Ejection fractions were calculated by the area-length method from the direct contrast ventriculograms, by both area-length and videodensitometric methods from the digital subtraction ventriculograms, and by count densitometry from the radionuclide ventriculograms. Satisfactory correlations were found between values obtained by the late mask resubtracted videodensitometric method and the radionuclide method (r = 0.85) and by the digital ventriculographic area length method and direct-contrast method (r = 0.88). Videodensitometric methods may be an alternative way to estimate left ventricular ejection fractions accurately without reliance on geometric assumptions about the shape of the left ventricular cavity.

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