Feasibility and reproducibility of a standard protocol for 2D speckle tracking and tissue doppler-based strain and strain rate analysis of the fetal heart

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 96-108

  Crispi, Ftima ^a,c   Sepulveda Swatson, Eduardo ^a,c   Cruz Lemini, Monica ^a,c   Rojas Benavente, Juan ^a,c   Garcia Posada, Raul ^a,c   Dominguez, Jesus Maria ^a,c   Sitges, Marta ^b   Bijnens, Bart ^d   Gratacós, Eduard ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

2D speckle tracking; Reproducibility; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

AORTA FLOW; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTOLE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864876094     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337329     Document Type: Article

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