Stimulated acoustic emission: Nonbackscatter contrast effect of microbubbles seen with harmonic power Doppler imaging

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-69

  Tiemann, Klaus ^a   Becher, Harald ^a   Bimmel, Dieter ^a   Schlief, Reinhard ^b   Nanda, Navin C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

contrast echocardiography; harmonic imaging; power Doppler imaging; stimulated acoustic emission

Indexed keywords

SHU 508;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRACARDIAC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030943213     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00692.x     Document Type: Article

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