Vortex Formation Time is Not an Index of Ventricular Function

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 54-58

  Pasipoularides, Ares ^a,b   Vlachos, Pavlos P ^c,d,e,f   Little, William C ^g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular and intraventricular pressure difference; Diastole; Diastolic vortex interaction with myocardial boundaries; Intraventricular diastolic flow; Ventricular function; Vortex formation time (FT)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GRAPHIC METHODS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MODAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTRAINED LEAST SQUARES; HISTOGRAM DATA; LINEAR REGRESSION PROBLEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; MODAL SYMBOLIC VARIABLES; PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION; WASSERSTEIN DISTANCE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIAGNOSIS; DIASTOLE; ELASTICITY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; DIASTOLE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 85017331081     PISSN: 18625347     EISSN: 18625355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12265-015-9607-7     Document Type: Article

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