Determination of the acceptable MPEG-4 quality for clinical real-time tele-echocardiography services

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 372-377

  Giordano, Andrea ^a   Comazzi, Fabio ^a   Scapellato, Francesco ^a   Eleuteri, Ermanno ^a   Giannuzzi, Pantaleo ^a   Minuco, Giuseppe ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data compression; Echocardiography; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849111949     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0021-25712009000400005     Document Type: Article

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