Rapid and accurate measurement of left ventricular function with a new second-harmonic fast-rotating transducer and semi-automated border detection

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 447-454

  Krenning, Boudewijn J ^a   Voormolen, Marco M ^a   Van Geuns, Robert Jan ^a   Vletter, W B ^a   Lancée, Charles T ^a   De Jong, Nico ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   Van Der Steen, Anton F W ^a   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated border detection; Left ventricular function; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED BORDER DETECTION; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME; TRANSDUCERS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33748560820     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00241.x     Document Type: Article

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