Harmonic power Doppler contrast echocardiography: Preliminary clinical results

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 6 PART I, 1997, Pages 637-642

  Becher, Harald ^a,d   Tiemann, Klaus ^a   Schlief, Reinhard ^b   Lüderitz, Berndt ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Harmonic imaging; Harmonic power Doppler; Power Doppler

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031466459     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00774.x     Document Type: Article

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