Three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography - A promising tool for cardiac functional analysis -

Circulation Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1290-1301

  Seo, Yoshihiro ^a   Ishizu, Tomoko ^a   Atsumi, Akiko ^a   Kawamura, Ryo ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac function; Speckle tracking; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 84901297436     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-14-0360     Document Type: Review

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