Fourier phase analysis can be used to objectively analyze real-time myocardial contrast echocardiograms

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 241-248

  Hansen, Alexander ^a   Bekeredjian, Raffi ^a   Korosoglou, Grigorious ^a   Wolf, David ^a   Filusch, Arthur ^a   Kuecherer, Helmut F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast echo; Fourier phase; Ischemia; Parametric imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY REPERFUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYNAMICS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS; HEART INFARCTION; PARAMETRIC TEST; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 4544283590     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 18758312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CAIM.0000041931.42557.2b     Document Type: Article

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