Automated volumetric flow quantification using angle-corrected color doppler image

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 399-408

  Kim, Beomjin ^a   Soble, Jeffrey S ^b   Stamos, Thomas D ^b   Neumann, Alexander ^c   Robergé, James ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Midwest Heart Specialists   (United States)

^d Cyberpulse LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle correction; Color doppler; Echocardiography; Stroke volume

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VOLUME; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 3042590140     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03066.x     Document Type: Article

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