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Poor tracking of myocardial walls and inaccurate estimation of systolic parameters in myocardial hypertrophy on gated myocardial perfusion SPECT resulted from erroneous placement of region of interest and contouring: A pitfall of commercially available software packages for cardiac analysis

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taleghani Educational Hospital, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Yaman St., Velenjak, Tehran, 1985711151, Iran

    Mohsen Qutbi MD, Yaser Shiravand MD, Mehdi Soltanshahi BSc & Isa Neshandar Asli MD

  2. Department of Cardiology, Modarres Educational Hospital, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Abdolhamid Bagheri MD

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Qutbi, M., Shiravand, Y., Soltanshahi, M. et al. Poor tracking of myocardial walls and inaccurate estimation of systolic parameters in myocardial hypertrophy on gated myocardial perfusion SPECT resulted from erroneous placement of region of interest and contouring: A pitfall of commercially available software packages for cardiac analysis. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 26, 1376–1379 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-018-1369-6

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