Color kinesis: New technique or just another display of acoustic quantification?

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-103

  Mor Avi, Victor ^a   Godoy, Ivan E ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left ventricular function; Objective diagnosis; Regional wall motion; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

ACOUSTICS; COLOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0032966421     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00790.x     Document Type: Review

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