Normal values in children for myocardial ultrasonic tissue characterization by integrated backscatter

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-361

  Shibuya, Kazuhiko ^a   Bigras, Jean Luc ^a   McCrindle, Brian W ^a   Newman, Alice ^a   Smallhorn, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Integrated backscatter; Normal values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031955207     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00616.x     Document Type: Article

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