Improved assessment of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction by contrast enhanced harmonic color Doppler echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 609-616

  Bezante, Gian Paolo ^a   Rosa, Gian Marco ^a   Bruni, Riccardo ^a   Chen, Xucai ^b   Villa, Giuseppe ^a   Scopinaro, Alice ^a   Balbi, Manrico ^a   Barsotti, Antonio ^a   Schwarz, Karl Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agents; Echocardiography; Left ventricle ejection fraction; Left ventricle volume

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED HARMONIC COLOR DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 30344453923     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-005-4519-2     Document Type: Article

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