Three-dimensional echocardiography: The gateway to virtual reality!

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 417-423

  Bruining, Nico ^a   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a   Grunst, Gernoth ^b   Berlage, Thomas ^b   Waldinger, Johannes ^c   Mumm, Bernhard ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Ger Natl Res Ctr for Comp Sci   (Germany)

^c TOMTEC IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer assisted image processing; Echocardiography; Heart diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0032793035     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00085.x     Document Type: Article

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