Myocardial Elastography at Both High Temporal and Spatial Resolution for the Detection of Infarcts

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1206-1223

  Luo, Jianwen ^a   Fujikura, Kana ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^b   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Contractility; Contraction; Deformation; Displacement; ECG gating; Elastogram; Elastography; Heart; High frequency; High resolution; Infarction; Mice; Motion; Myocardium; Strain; Stretching; Systole; Tethering; Thickening; Thinning; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

ECG GATING TECHNIQUE; ELASTOGRAMS; FRAME RATE; HIGH TEMPORAL; INFARCTS; ISOVOLUMETRIC PHASES; MYOCARDIAL ELASTOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRAIN ESTIMATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIASTOLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTOLE; TIME PERCEPTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34547115454     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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