Ultrasonic tissue characterization of the mouse myocardium: Successful in vivo cyclic variation measurements

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 883-892

  Kovacs, Attila ^a,b   Courtois, Michael R ^a   Weinheimer, Carla J ^a   Posdamer, Stephanie H ^a   Wallace, Kirk D ^a   Holland, Mark R ^a   Miller, James G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND; WILD TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3342960851     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.04.035     Document Type: Article

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