Potential relationships among myocardial stiffness, the measured level of myocardial backscatter ("image brightness"), and the magnitude of the systematic variation of backscatter (cyclic variation) over the heart cycle

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1131-1137

  Holland, Mark R ^a   Wallace, Kirk D ^a   Miller, James G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 6344253031     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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