Comprehensive Evaluation of Left Ventricular Strain Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Normal Adults: Comparison of Three-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Approaches

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1025-1030

  Saito, Ken ^a   Okura, Hiroyuki ^a   Watanabe, Nozomi ^a   Hayashida, Akihiro ^a   Obase, Kikuko ^a   Imai, Koichiro ^a   Maehama, Tomoko ^a   Kawamoto, Takahiro ^a   Neishi, Yoji ^a   Yoshida, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Normal subjects; Strain; Three dimensional echocardiography; Three dimensional speckle tracking; Two dimensional speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE STRAIN; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 69449098950     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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