Initial experience with an internally rotating transthoracic three- dimensional echocardiographic probe and image acquisition on a conventional echocardiogram machine

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-376

  Papavassiliou, Dimitrios ^a   Doelling, Nancy R ^a   Bowman, Michael K ^a   Yeung, Hubert ^b   Rock, Joseph ^b   Klas, Berthold ^c   Chung, Kevin ^c   Fyfe, Derek A ^a,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c Tom Tec Imaging Systems   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0031966658     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00618.x     Document Type: Article

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