Quantification of myocardial blood flow with ultrasound-induced destruction of microbubbles administered as a constant venous infusion

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 473-483

  Wei, Kevin ^b   Jayaweera, Ananda R ^b   Firoozan, Soroosh ^b   Linka, Andre ^b   Skyba, Danny M ^b   Kaul, Sanjiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blood flow; Contrast media; Echocardiography; Microcirculation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032501992     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.5.473     Document Type: Article

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