Noninvasive mapping of left ventricular electromechanical asynchrony by three-dimensional echocardiography and semi-automatic contour detection

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1449-1453

  Van Der Heide, Johannes A ^a   Mannaerts, Herman F ^a   Spruijt, Hugo J ^a   Van Campen, Linda M ^a   De Cock, Carel ^a   Visser, Cees A ^a   Kamp, Otto ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 9344240795     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.07.152     Document Type: Article

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