Head-to-Head Comparison of Global Longitudinal Strain Measurements among Nine Different Vendors: The EACVI/ASE Inter-Vendor Comparison Study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1171-1181.e2

  Farsalinos, Konstantinos E ^a   Daraban, Ana M ^a   Ünlü, Serkan ^a   Thomas, James D ^b   Badano, Luigi P ^c   Voigt, Jens Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformation; Left ventricle; Speckle tracking echocardiography; Strain; Systolic function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENDOCARDIUM; GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN MEASUREMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDUSTRY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDUSTRY; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84944047154     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2015.06.011     Document Type: Article

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