What is the Primary Source of Discordance in Strain Measurement Between Vendors: Imaging or Analysis?

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 714-720

  Negishi, Kazuaki ^a   Lucas, Sean ^b   Negishi, Tomoko ^a   Hamilton, Jamie ^b   Marwick, Thomas H ^a,c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Epsilon Imaging   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adult; Inter vendor difference; Myocardial deformation; Strain

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (DICOM); SOFTWARE PACKAGES; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS; INTER-VENDOR DIFFERENCE; LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; ULTRASOUND MACHINES;

STRAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEMALE; GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 84875121239     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.11.021     Document Type: Article

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