Real-time Simultaneous Triplane Contrast Echocardiography Gives Rapid, Accurate, and Reproducible Assessment of Left Ventricular Volumes and Ejection Fraction: A Comparison with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1494-1501

  Malm, Siri ^a,b   Frigstad, Sigmund ^c   Sagberg, Einar ^a   Steen, Per Arvid ^a   Skjarpe, Terje ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Ge Vingmed Ultrasound AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FS 069;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING; ENDOCARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33751342967     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.06.021     Document Type: Article

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