Fourier-phase imaging can be used to objectively analyze myocardial contrast echocardiograms

Computers in Cardiology

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 193-196

  Bekeredjian, R ^a   Filusch, A ^a   Hilbel, T ^a   Reiter, M ^a   Foster, E ^b   Botvinick, E ^b   Schiller, N B ^b   Cahalan, M ^b   Merrick, S ^b   Balea, M ^b   Russell, I ^b   Kuecherer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSDUCERS;

EPICARDIAL SECOND HARMONIC IMAGING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER PHASE IMAGING; HARMONIC POWER DOPPLER IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL OPACIFICATION; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 0034481064     PISSN: 02766574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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