Myocardial velocity gradient assessed by a tissue Doppler imaging technique

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 465-472

  Uematsu, Masaaki ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^b  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diastolic function; Doppler; Myocardium; Regression line; Stress echocardiography; Translation; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032765893     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00093.x     Document Type: Article

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