A miniaturized catheter 2-D array for real-time, 3-D intracardiac echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1334-1346

  Lee, Warren ^a,b   Idriss, Salim F ^c   Wolf, Patrick D ^a   Smith, Stephen W ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOPSY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

CARDIAC STRUCTURES; CORONARY SINUS (CS); CROSS SECTIONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CATHETER (EP);

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MINIATURIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 8344252796     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2004.1350962     Document Type: Article

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