Tissue harmonic imaging in echocardiography: Better valve imaging, but at what cost?

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-123

  Hawkins, Karin ^a   Henry, John S ^a   Krasuski, Richard A ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Mitral valve; Tissue harmonic imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE HARMONIC IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 38849205721     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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