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Summary: doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.03.016
Original Contribution
SEGMENTATION OF REAL-TIME THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND
FOR QUANTIFICATION OF VENTRICULAR FUNCTION: A CLINICAL
STUDY ON RIGHT AND LEFT VENTRICLES
ELSA D. ANGELINI,* SHUNICHI HOMMA,
GREGORY PEARSON,
JEFFREY W. HOLMES,§
and ANDREW F. LAINE
§
*Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France;
Department of Medicine, Columbia
University, New York, NY, USA;
College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA;
and §
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
(Received 28 July 2004, revised 14 March 2005, in final form 22 March 2005)
Abstract--Among screening modalities, echocardiography is the fastest, least expensive and least invasive
method for imaging the heart. A new generation of three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound (US) technology has been
developed with real-time 3-D (RT3-D) matrix phased-array transducers. These transducers allow interactive 3-D
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