Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 107-116 , 1994

Automated method for characterization of diastolic transmitral doppler velocity contours: Early rapid filling

Received 7 June 1993 ,Revised 2 August 1993

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