Insights from echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and microcomputed tomography relative to the mid-myocardial left ventricular echogenic zone

Echocardiography

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1546-1556

  Agger, Peter ^a   Stephenson, Robert S ^b,c   Dobrzynski, Halina ^d   Atkinson, Andrew ^d   Iaizzo, Paul A ^e   Anderson, Robert H ^f,g   Jarvis, Jonathan C ^b   Allan, Sarah L ^h   Partridge, John B ⁱ   Zhao, Jichao ^j   Zhang, Henggui ^d   MacIver, David H ^d,h  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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Author keywords

cardiomyocyte orientation; computed tomography; diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; echocardiography; helical ventricular myocardial band

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MID MYOCARDIAL LEFT VENTRICULAR ECHOGENIC ZONE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84992448486     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.13324     Document Type: Article

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