Ultrasonic tissue characterization: Review of a noninvasive technique for assessing myocardial viability

Echocardiography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 415-430

  Schecter, Stuart O ^a,b   Teichholz, Louis E ^a   Klig, Victor ^a   Goldman, Martin E ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

backscatter; tissue characterization; viability

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; HYDROXYPROLINE; THALLIUM 201;

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030017893     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1996.tb00915.x     Document Type: Article

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