Three-Dimensional echo: Transition from theory to real-time, A technology now ready for prime time

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 85-105

  Houck, Robin C ^a   Cooke, Jason ^a   Gill, Edward A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DOBUTAMINE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GATED IMAGING; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 18244401896     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpradiol.2005.02.001     Document Type: Review

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