Tissue Doppler echocardiography: Future developments

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 509-520

  Sutherland, George R ^a   Kukulski, Tomasz ^b   Voight, Jens Uwe ^b   D'Hooge, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Myocardial strain; Tissue Doppler; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART STRESS; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032770866     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00098.x     Document Type: Article

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