Strain Without Pain: Application of Parametric Imaging of Strain Rate Response for the Quantitation of Stress Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-308

  Marwick, Thomas H ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TEST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSICAL STRESS; PROGNOSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 41249101315     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.01.020     Document Type: Editorial

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