Ultrafast cardiac ultrasound imaging: Technical principles, applications, and clinical benefits

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 812-823

  Cikes, Maja ^a,b   Tong, Ling ^a   Sutherland, George R ^a   D'Hooge, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

cardiovascular imaging; deformation; diverging wave imaging; high frame rate imaging; plane wave imaging; tissue Doppler imaging; ultrafast cardiac imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIAC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAFAST CARDIAC IMAGING; VISCOELASTICITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FOLLOW UP; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; MASS COMMUNICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; TIME;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905978798     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.06.004     Document Type: Review

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