A comparison between QLAB and tomtec full volume reconstruction for real time three-dimensional echocardiographic quantification of left ventricular volumes

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 967-974

  Soliman, Osama I I ^a,b   Krenning, Boudewijn J ^a   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a   Nemes, Attila ^a,c   Van Geuns, Robert Jan ^a   Baks, Timo ^a   Anwar, Ashraf M ^a,b   Galema, Tjebbe W ^a   Vletter, Wim B ^a   Cate, Folkert J Ten ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b El Hussein University Hospital   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left ventricular function; RT3DE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34748840861     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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