Impact of wall constraint on velocity distribution in proximal flow convergence zone: Implications for color Doppler quantification of mitral regurgitation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 706-713

  Pu, Min ^a   Vandervoort, Pieter M ^a   Greenberg, Neil L ^a   Powell, Kimerly A ^a   Griffin, Brian P ^a   Thomas, James D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030006014     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(95)00509-9     Document Type: Article

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