Relationship between myocardial tissue density measured by microgravimetry and sound speed measured by acoustic microscopy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1459-1463

  Masugata, Hisashi ^a,b   Mizushige, Katsufumi ^a   Senda, Shoichi ^a   Kinoshita, Aki ^a   Sakamoto, Haruhiko ^a   Sakamoto, Seiji ^a   Matsuo, Hirohide ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic microscopy; Bulk modulus; Density; Elasticity; Myocardial tissue; Sound speed

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROGRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DENSITOMETRY; ELASTICITY; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTICITY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

MICROGRAVIMETRY; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPE;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0032586120     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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