Three-Dimensional Cardiac Strain Imaging in Healthy Children Using RF-Data

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1399-1408

  Lopata, Richard G P ^a,b   Nillesen, Maartje M ^b   Thijssen, Johan M ^b   Kapusta, L ^b,c,d   De Korte, Chris L ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 D strain estimation; Cardiac strain; Children; Echocardiography; Elastography; In vivo; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC STRAIN; CHILDREN; ELASTOGRAPHY; IN VIVO; STRAIN ESTIMATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPECKLE; STRAIN; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CHILD; DATA BASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCHOOL CHILD; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; RADIO WAVES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79960947332     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.845     Document Type: Article

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