Pitfalls of echocardiographic measurement in tissue harmonic imaging: In vitro and in vivo study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 10 I, 2002, Pages 1038-1044

  Hirata, Kumiko ^a   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Beppu, Shintaro ^a   Muro, Takashi ^a   Teragaki, Masakazu ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

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

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; SWINE; THICKNESS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; SWINE;

EID: 0038215622     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.121537     Document Type: Article

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