Usefulness of contrast echocardiography to improve the feasibility and accuracy of automated measurements of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction in patients with coronary artery disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-74

  Fukuda, Shota ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Muro, Takashi ^a   Abo, Koji ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHU 508; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037524293     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00471-5     Document Type: Article

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