Cardiac magnetic resonance, transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography: A comparison of in vivo assessment of ventricular function in rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 291-300

  Richardson, J D ^a,b   Bertaso, A G ^a   Frost, L ^a   Psaltis, P J ^a,c   Carbone, A ^a   Koschade, B ^a   Wong, D T ^a   Nelson, A J ^a   Paton, S ^b   Williams, K ^a   Azarisman, S ^a   Worthley, M I ^a   Teo, K S ^a   Gronthos, S ^b   Zannettino, A C W ^b   Worthley, S G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance; Intracardiac echocardiography; Left ventricular function; Transoesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART CATHETER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC ECHO CATHETER; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; TRANSOESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84890221055     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0023677213494373     Document Type: Article

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