Velocity vector imaging: Standard tissue-tracking results acquired in normals - The VVI-STRAIN study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 543-552

  Carasso, Shemy ^a,b,c   Biaggi, Patric ^c,d   Rakowski, Harry ^c,d   Mutlak, Diab ^a   Lessick, Jonathan ^a,b   Aronson, Doron ^a,b   Woo, Anna ^c,d   Agmon, Yoram ^a,b  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Myocardial mechanics; Normal; Rotation; Speckle tracking; Strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MURMUR; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; VELOCITY VECTOR IMAGING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART MURMURS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SYSTOLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860248889     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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