Improvement in echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular wall motion using still-frame parametric imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 926-934

  Caiani, Enrico G ^b   Lang, Roberto M ^a   Korcarz, Claudia E ^a   DeCara, Jeanne M ^a   Weinert, Lynn ^a   Collins, Keith A ^a   Spencer, Kirk T ^a   Mor Avi, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SWINE;

EID: 0036739855     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.120503     Document Type: Article

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