Noninvasive estimation of left-ventricular end-diastole elasticity by analyzing heart wall vibrations

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 765-766

  Kanai, H ^a   Nakaya, S ^a   Honda, H ^b   Koiwa, Y ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES;

END-DIASTOLIC PRESSURE (EDP); HEART WALL VIBRATIONS; MIRSKY METHOD;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 0032650035     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990531     Document Type: Article

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