Three-dimensional echocardiography: The future today!

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 715-729

  Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA REDUCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED ROTATIONAL ACQUISITIONS; FREELAND SCANNING; LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034291604     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(00)00074-1     Document Type: Article

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