Echocontrast agents in neurosonology

Functional Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 235-239

  Totaro, Rocco ^a   Del Sette, Massimo ^b   Marini, Carmine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral arteries; Contrast media; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

BY 963; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUOROPENTANE; SHU 508;

BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPEROSTOSIS; IMAGING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; SHORT SURVEY;

CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; POLYSACCHARIDES; TEMPORAL BONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0033511488     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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