High-resolution echocardiography in the assessment of cardiac physiology and disease in preclinical models

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-644

  Moran, Carmel M ^a,b   Thomson, Adrian J W ^a,b   Rog Zielinska, Eva ^a   Gray, Gillian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC IMAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

EID: 84874059766     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.068577     Document Type: Article

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