Harmonic power Doppler contrast echocardiography: Preliminary experimental results

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART I, 1997, Pages 631-635

  Agrawal, Dipak I ^a   Malhotra, Sanjay ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,c   Truffa, Claudia Carvalho ^a   Agrawal, Gopal ^a   Thakur, Abhash C ^a   Jamil, Farrukh ^a   Taylor, Gregg W ^a   Becher, Harald ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Harmonic imaging; Harmonic power Doppler imaging; Levovist; Power Doppler M mode

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPYRIDAMOLE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; SHU 508; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MUSCLE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031439631     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00773.x     Document Type: Article

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