Real-time quantitative automatic assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction and regional wall motion by speckle imaging

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 281-285

  Leitman, Marina ^a,b   Lysyansky, Peter ^c   Gurevich, Josef ^a,b   Friedman, Zvi ^c   Sucher, Edgar ^a,b   Rosenblatt, Simcha ^a,b   Kaluski, Edo ^a,b   Krakover, Ricardo ^a,b   Fuchs, Therese ^a,b   Vered, Zvi ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Left ventricular function; Speckler imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WORK; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247850889     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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