Impact of tissue harmonic imaging in patients with distorted left ventricles: Improvement in accuracy and reproducibility of visual, manual and automated echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-67

  Mele, Donato ^a   Campana, M ^b   Sclavo, M ^c   Seveso, M ^d   Aschieri, D ^e   Nesta, F ^a   D'Aiello, I ^a   Ferrari, R ^a   Levine, R A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c S GIOVANNI BOSCO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

^e Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Ejection fraction; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037366633     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euje.2002.0619     Document Type: Article

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