Assessment of fetal myocardial deformation using speckle tracking techniques

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 39-46

  Germanakis, Ioannis ^a   Gardiner, Helena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal heart; Myocardial strain; Speckle tracking

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECKLE TRACKING IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84864868782     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330378     Document Type: Review

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