An Ultrasonic Method for Measuring Tissue Displacement: Technical Details and Validation for Measuring Myocardial Thickening

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 735-747

  Hartley, Craig J ^a   Litowitz, Harvey ^a   Rabinovitz, Raphael S ^a   Zhu, Wei Xi ^a   Chelly, Jacques E ^a   Michael, Lloyd H ^a   Bolli, Roberto ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES - REFLECTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MYOCARDIAL THICKENING; MYOCARDIAL TISSUE DISPLACEMENT; TISSUE THICKENING MEASUREMENTS; ULTRASONIC TRANSIT TIME;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOG; HEART HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ANIMAL; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026202768     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.83585     Document Type: Article

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