Assessment of myocardial perfusion by power contrast imaging using a new echo contrast agent

Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 457-461

  Nanda, Navin C ^a,e   Miller, Andrew ^a   Puri, Virender K ^a   Fan, PoHoey ^a   Tiemann, Haus ^b   Becher, Harold ^b   Main, Joan ^c   Batra, Sanjay ^d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d Bracco Research USA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Myocardial perfusion; Power contrast imaging; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SONOVUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033913405     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb01165.x     Document Type: Article

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