Color Doppler visualization of intramyocardial coronary arteries using a new echo system: Effect of contrast enhancement and vasodilation

Echocardiography

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 645-650

  Garcia Del Rio, Carlos ^a   Taylor, Gregg W ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Agrawal, Dipak I ^a   Agrawal, Gopal G ^a   Carvalho, Claudia ^a   Espinal, Miguel ^a   Becher, Harald ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

adenosine; color Doppler; intramyocardial coronary arteries; Levovist; vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; SHU 508;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DOG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0029803018     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1996.tb00949.x     Document Type: Article

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