Multiview Fusion 3-d Echocardiography: Improving the Information and Quality of Real-Time 3-D Echocardiography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1056-1072

  Rajpoot, Kashif ^a   Grau, Vicente ^a   Noble, J Alison ^a   Szmigielski, Cezary ^a   Becher, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Left ventricle; Multiview fusion; Real time 3D echocardiography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; 3D IMAGE ACQUISITION; ANATOMIC INFORMATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IMAGING; FIELD OF VIEWS; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION ALGORITHMS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LEFT VENTRICLES; MULTI-VIEWS; MULTIPLE IMAGE; PROBE POSITION; REAL-TIME 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIVIEW FUSION THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959210313     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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