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Transthoracic Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Quantitative Assessment of Left Ventricular Myocardial Deformation
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Regional Heterogeneity of LV Wall Thickness
Nathaniel Reichek1, Alistair Young2
1Department of Cardiac Imaging, St. Francis Hospital, Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York; Research Department, St. Francis Hospital, Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York.
JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging
|November 14, 2015
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