Prospective cardiac gating of carotid three-dimensional ultrasound

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3168-3175

  Mallett, Christiane ^a,b   Gardi, Lori ^a   Fenster, Aaron ^a,b   Parraga, Grace ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 dimensional ultrasound; Atherosclerosis; Cardiac gating; Prospective

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIAC GATING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH SIGNALS; PROSPECTIVE; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND (3DUS);

HEART;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 67649586639     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3134243     Document Type: Article

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