Noninvasive imaging of inflammation by ultrasound detection of Phagocytosed microbubbles

Circulation

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 531-538

  Lindner, Jonathan R ^a,b   Dayton, Paul A ^a   Coggins, Matthew P ^a   Ley, Klaus ^a   Song, Ji ^a   Ferrara, Katherine ^a   Kaul, Sanjiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Inflammation; Leukocytes; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CREMASTER MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0034255292     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.102.5.531     Document Type: Article

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