Effect of color coding and subtraction on the accuracy of contrast echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-231

  Pasquet, Agnes ^a   Greenberg, Neil ^a   Brunken, Richard ^a   Thomas, James D ^a   Marwick, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Post processing; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OXIDES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033621007     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(99)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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