Cardiac biplane strain imaging: Initial in vivo experience

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 963-979

  Lopata, R G P ^a   Nillesen, M M ^a   Verrijp, C N ^a   Singh, S K ^a   Lammens, M M Y ^a   Van Der Laak, J A W M ^a   Van Wetten, H B ^a   Thijssen, J M ^a   Kapusta, L ^a   De Korte, C L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D STRAIN; A-FRAMES; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTIC STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVES; CARDIAC CYCLES; CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ELEVATED PRESSURE; FIBROTIC TISSUE; FRAME RATE; IMAGE SEQUENCE; IN-VIVO; INITIAL STRAINS; LATERAL WALLS; LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; MYOCARDIAL HYPERTROPHY; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PERPENDICULAR-PLANE; RADIAL STRAINS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SEGMENTED REGIONS; STRAIN CURVES; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND DATA; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HEART; PACKED BEDS; PATHOLOGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

STRAIN RATE;

ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE MODEL; DOG; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PRESSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TIME;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIOMEGALY; CHILD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRESSURE; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76149116914     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/4/004     Document Type: Article

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