The influence of the region of interest width on two-dimensional speckle tracking-based measurements of strain and strain rate

Echocardiography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 89-95

  Spriestersbach, Hendrik ^a   Oh Icí, Darach ^a   Schmitt, Boris ^a   Berger, Felix ^a   Schmitz, Lothar ^b  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

observer variation; region of interest; reproducibility of results; speckle tracking; strain; strain rate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APICAL FOUR CHAMBER VIEW; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHILD; FEMALE; GLOBAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; GLOBAL CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN RATE; GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPERATOR; PARASTERNAL SHORT AXIS VIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGION OF INTEREST WIDTH; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84920872193     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12589     Document Type: Article

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