Accuracy and Reproducibility of Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography for Assessment of Right Ventricular Volumes and Ejection Fraction in Children

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-89

  Lu, Xiuzhang ^a   Nadvoretskiy, Vyacheslav ^a   Bu, Liping ^b   Stolpen, Alan ^b   Ayres, Nancy ^a   Pignatelli, Ricardo H ^a   Kovalchin, John P ^a   Grenier, Michelle ^a   Klas, Berthold ^c   Ge, Shuping ^a,d  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TOMTEC IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^d ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 37349089012     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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