Comparison of two different speckle tracking software systems: Does the method matter?

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 539-547

  Biaggi, Patric ^a,c   Carasso, Shemy ^b   Garceau, Patrick ^a   Greutmann, Matthias ^a   Gruner, Christiane ^a   Tsang, Wendy ^a   Rakowski, Harry ^a   Agmon, Yoram ^b   Woo, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

echocardiography; left ventricular function; myocardial strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE TRACKING SOFTWARE SYSTEM; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY VECTOR IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79956156965     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01386.x     Document Type: Article

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