Variables influencing the accuracy of 2-dimensional and real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography for assessment of small volumes, areas, and distances : An in vitro study using static tissue-mimicking phantoms

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 899-908

  Herberg, Ulrike ^a   Brand, Manuel ^a   Bernhardt, Christine ^a   Trier, Hans Georg ^b   Breuer, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Technology in Medicine and Public Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 dimensional echocardiography; Accuracy; Children; Congenital heart disease; Echocardiography; Real time echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TISSUE;

3-DIMENSIONAL; ACCURACY; CHILDREN; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; REAL TIME;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79959601700     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.7.899     Document Type: Article

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