Assessment of Left Ventricular Function and Mass by MR Imaging: A Stereological Study Based on the Systematic Slice Sampling Procedure.

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 738-744

  Mazonakis, Michalis ^a   Sahin, Bunyamin ^b   Pagonidis, Konstantin ^c   Damilakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Left ventricle; MR imaging; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEREOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79955576938     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.01.015     Document Type: Article

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