Effects of Region of Interest Tracking on the Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony from Doppler Tissue Images

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 234-240

  Fornwalt, Brandon K ^a,b   Thomas, Joshua A ^a,c   Bhasin, Mohit ^a   Merlino, John D ^a,d   León, Angel R ^a,d   Fyfe, Derek A ^a,c   Oshinski, John N ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SIBLEY HEART CENTER CARDIOLOGY   (United States)

^d Carlyle Fraser Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchrony; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Dyssynchrony; Region of interest; Tissue doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; MALE; SYSTOLE;

ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 39749110748     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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