Conventional and hypobaric activation of an ultrasound contrast agent

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1143-1150

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a   Roy, Ronald ^b   Merton, Daniel A ^a   Rawool, Nandkumar M ^a   Liu, Ji Bin ^a   Huang, Marissa ^c   Kessler, Dean ^c   Goldberg, Barry B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c Sonus Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast activation; Contrast agent; Hepatomas; Sonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY;

HYPOBARIC ACTIVATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUOROPENTANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HYPOBARISM; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOODCHUCK;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MARMOTA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0032191904     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00062-3     Document Type: Article

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