Echocardiographic speckle-tracking based strain imaging for rapid cardiovascular phenotyping in mice

Circulation Research

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 908-916

  Bauer, Michael ^a   Cheng, Susan ^a   Jain, Mohit ^a   Ngoy, Soeun ^a   Theodoropoulos, Catherine ^b   Trujillo, Anna ^b   Lin, Fen Chiung ^c   Liao, Ronglih ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Sonics Inc   (Canada)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cardiac function; cardiac phenotyping; cardiovascular physiology; echocardiography; strain imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE TRACKING BASED STRAIN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHENOTYPE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 79954603524     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.110.239574     Document Type: Article

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