Efficient Quantification of the Left Ventricular Volume Using 3-Dimensional Echocardiography: The Minimal Number of Equiangular Long-axis Images for Accurate Quantification of the Left Ventricular Volume

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-380

  Voormolen, Marco M ^a,b   Krenning, Boudewijn J ^b   van Geuns, Robert Jan ^b   Borsboom, Jerome ^b   Lancée, Charles T ^b   ten Cate, Folkert J ^b   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^b   van der Steen, Anton F W ^a,b   de Jong, Nico ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33947648431     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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