Single-heartbeat electromechanical wave imaging with optimal strain estimation using temporally unequispaced acquisition sequences

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1095-1112

  Provost, Jean ^a   Thiébaut, Stéphane ^a   Luo, Jianwen ^a   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM DENSITY; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL WAVES; FRAME RATE; FREE BREATHING; IMAGING METHOD; IMAGING PARAMETERS; IN-VIVO; NON-INVASIVE; OPTIMAL IMAGING; REAL TIME; SIGNAL TO NOISE; STRAIN ESTIMATION; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

HEART; POWER QUALITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOG; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DOGS; HEART; MALE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROBABILITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84856885977     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/4/1095     Document Type: Article

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