Multimodality noninvasive imaging for assessment of congenital heart disease

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-125

  Prakash, Ashwin ^a   Powell, Andrew J ^a   Geva, Tal ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital; Echocardiography; Heart defects; Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; REVIEW; SYSTOLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDUCATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749089673     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.875021     Document Type: Review

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