Wideband high-frequency echocardiography to evaluate myocardial infarct size

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1527-1534

  Xu, Jianping ^a   Zhang, Chengxiu ^b   Khanna, Ashwani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency ultrasound imaging; Histologic analysis; Left anterior descending coronary artery; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LOCATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CORONARY ARTERIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND IMAGING; HISTOLOGIC ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING; MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCT SIZES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73949103865     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.11.1527     Document Type: Article

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