Determination of the left ventricular long-axis orientation from a single short-axis MR image: Relation to BMI and age

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 310-315

  Engblom, Henrik ^a   Hedström, Erik ^a   Palmer, John ^a   Wagner, Galen S ^b   Arheden, Håkan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac anatomy; Healthy individuals; Heart orientation; Normal cardiac function; Optimal imaging planes; Orthogonal planes

Indexed keywords

GADOTERIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 5444241973     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2004.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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