Assessment of myocardial regional strain and strain rate by tissue tracking in B-mode echocardiograms

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1181-1192

  Rappaport, Dan ^a   Adam, Dan ^a   Lysyansky, Peter ^b   Riesner, Shimon ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

SAD; Speckle tracking; Spline fitting; Strain imaging; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPECKLE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SAD; SPECKLE TRACKING; SPLINE FITTING; STRAIN IMAGING;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HEART FUNCTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33746262978     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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