Developments in cardiovascular ultrasound. Part 3: Cardiac applications

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 529-543

  Moran, C M ^a   McDicken, W N ^a   Hoskins, P R ^a   Fish, P J ^b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Doppler tissue imaging; Myocardial wall motion; Proximal isovelocity surface area; Second harmonic

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST AGENTS; DOPPLER TISSUE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION ABNORMALITIES; MYOCARDIAL WALL MOTION; PROXIMAL ISOVELOCITY SURFACE AREA; REGURGITATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANATOMY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 0032169821     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02524420     Document Type: Review

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