Imaging the electromechanical activity of the heart in vivo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8565-8570

  Provost, Jean ^a   Lee, Wei Ning ^a   Fujikura, Kana ^b   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromechanical coupling; Strain

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; DOG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMECHANICAL WAVE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SINUS RHYTHM;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79957777311     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011688108     Document Type: Article

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