Time-varying, 3-D echocardiography using a fast-rotating probe

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 634-639

  Blancher, Jérôme ^a   Léger, Christophe ^a   Nguyen, Long Dang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER RÉGIONAL D ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

SIMPSON METHODS; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES;

ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 2942590972     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1302771     Document Type: Article

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