From digital image processing of colour Doppler M-mode maps to noninvasive evaluation of the left ventricular diastolic function: A dedicated software package

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 603-611

  Tonti, Giovanni ^a   Riccardi, Giorgio ^b   Denaro, Filippo Maria ^b   Trambaiolo, Paolo ^c   Salustri, Alessandro ^c  

^a Cardiology Department   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c SANDRO PERTINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler ultrasound; Diastole; Haemodynamics; Image processing

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PRESSURE; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY;

COLOUR BLACK SPOTS; COLOUR DOPPLER MODE; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT FIELD; SPACE TEMPORAL VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL FILTERING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HEART MUSCLE DP-DT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 0034036876     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00171-4     Document Type: Article

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