Validation of the Smallest Pocket Echoscopic Device's Diagnostic Capabilities in Heart Investigation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 798-804

  Lafitte, Stephane ^a   Alimazighi, Nazim ^a   Reant, Patricia ^a   Dijos, Marina ^a   Zaroui, Amira ^a   Mignot, Aude ^a   Lafitte, Marianne ^a   Pillois, Xavier ^a   Roudaut, Raymond ^a   DeMaria, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart function; Heart morphology

Indexed keywords

COLOR DOPPLER; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; END-POINTS; GREYSCALE; HEART FUNCTION; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; LEFT VENTRICULAR; LV FUNCTION; MITRAL REGURGITATION; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; ULTRASOUND DEVICES;

DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; PATHOLOGY;

MORPHOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERICARDIUM; POCKET ULTRASOUND DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION;

EID: 79954630101     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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