Echocardiographic measures of myocardial deformation by speckle-tracking technologies: The need for standardization?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1189-1194

  Nelson, Matthew R ^a   Hurst, R Todd ^a   Raslan, Serageldin F ^a   Cha, Stephen ^b   Wilansky, Susan ^a   Lester, Steven J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Speckle tracking; Strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STUDENT T TEST;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84867850361     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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