Feasibility and reproducibility of left ventricular rotation parameters measured by speckle tracking echocardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 669-676

  Van Dalen, Bas M ^a   Soliman, Osama I I ^a   Vletter, Wim B ^a   Kauer, Floris ^a   Van Der Zwaan, Heleen B ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feasibility; Left ventricular rotation and twist; Reproducibility; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ROTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SOFTWARE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67650921415     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep036     Document Type: Article

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