Determination of left ventricular mass and circumferential wall thickness by three-dimensional reconstruction: In vitro validation of a new method that uses a multiplane transesophageal transducer

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-119

  Kühl, Harald P ^a,b   Franke, Andreas ^a   Frielingsdorf, Jürgen ^a   Flaskamp, Christian ^a   Krebs, Winfried ^a   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; OBSERVER VARIATION; TRANSDUCERS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031084931     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)70083-X     Document Type: Article

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