Usefulness of Automated Quantitation of Regional Left Ventricular Wall Motion by a Novel Method of Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Tracking

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1531-1537

  Ogawa, Keitaro ^a   Hozumi, Takeshi ^a   Sugioka, Kenichi ^a   Matsumura, Yoshiki ^a   Nishiura, Masahide ^b   Kanda, Ryoichi ^c   Abe, Yasuhiko ^c   Takemoto, Yasuhiko ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33751174724     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.06.060     Document Type: Article

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