Left ventricular myocardial mass determination by contrast enhanced colour Doppler compared with magnetic resonance imaging

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-43

  Bezante, Gian P ^a   Chen, X ^b   Molinari, G ^a   Valbusa, A ^a   Deferrari, L ^a   Sebastiani, V ^a   Yokoyama, N ^b   Steinmetz, S ^b   Barsotti, A ^a   Schwarz, K Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ACCURACY; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; AREA LENGTH METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCED DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPSON RULE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 10844264166     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.023234     Document Type: Article

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