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Makoto Hirama
Researcher at Toshiba
Publications - 24
Citations - 1353
Makoto Hirama is an academic researcher from Toshiba. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ultrasonic sensor & Signal. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1336 citations. Previous affiliations of Makoto Hirama include Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation.
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New method for evaluating left ventricular wall motion by color-coded tissue Doppler imaging : in vitro and in vivo studies
Kunio Miyatake,Masakazu Yamagishi,Norio Tanaka,Masaaki Uematsu,Nobuo Yamazaki,Yoshitake Mine,Akihiro Sano,Makoto Hirama +7 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that the present tissue Doppler imaging system accurately represents tissue velocity and can create two-dimensional color images that facilitate visual assessment of ventricular wall motion.
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Myocardial velocity gradient as a new indicator of regional left ventricular contraction: Detection by a two-dimensional tissue doppler imaging technique
Masaaki Uematsu,Kunio Miyatake,Norio Tanaka,Hisao Matsuda,Akihiro Sano,Nobuo Yamazaki,Makoto Hirama,Masakazu Yamagishi +7 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that regional left ventricular contraction can be quantitatively assessed by the myocardial velocity gradient derived from two-dimensional tissue Doppler imaging and suggest that myocardials velocity gradient has potential for the quantitative assessment of regional left Ventricular contraction abnormalities in patients.
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Analysis of Ventricular Wall Motion Using Color-Coded Tissue Doppler Imaging System
Nobuo Yamazaki,Yoshitaka Mine,Akihiro Sano,Makoto Hirama,Kunio Miyatake,Masakazu Yamagishi,Norio Tanaka +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a color Doppler system for determining the tissue velocities associated with tissue motion, and called it the TDI system, which is applicable for creating two-dimensional images of the ventricular wall motion in real time.
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Ultrasound imaging preferable to ultrasound contrast echography
TL;DR: In contrast echography, a diagnostic ultrasound system comprises a probe for converting an electrical driving signal into a corresponding transmission ultrasound wave and converting an echoed ultrasound wave into corresponding electrical echo signal.
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Quantitative measurement of volume flow rate (cardiac output) by the multibeam Doppler method
TL;DR: The principle of a method that can reduce the dependence of the Doppler angle of flow measurement by setting the sample points along a line to which every ultrasound beam is perpendicular is described.