Acoustic quantification today and its future horizons

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-94

  Mor Avi, Victor ^a   Spencer, Kirk T ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Harmonic imaging; Left ventricular function; Signal averaging; Three dimensional imaging; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032966166     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00789.x     Document Type: Review

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