New three-dimensional echocardiographic system using digital radiofrequency data - Visualization and quantitative analysis of aortic valve dynamics with high resolution: Methods, feasibility, and initial clinical experience

Circulation

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2876-2879

  Handke, Michael ^a   Jahnke, Cosima ^a   Heinrichs, Gudrun ^a   Schlegel, Jörg ^d   Vos, Clemens ^b   Schmitt, Daniel ^c   Bode, Christoph ^a   Geibel, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b TOMTEC IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^d TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography, 3D; Imaging; Valve, aortic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; DATA DISPLAY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037974174     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000077909.54159.B4     Document Type: Article

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