The impact of emission power on the destruction of echo contrast agents and on the origin of tissue harmonic signals using power pulse-inversion imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1525-1533

  Tiemann, Klaus ^a   Veltmann, Christian ^a   Ghanem, Alexander ^a   Lohmaier, Stefan ^a   Bruce, Matt ^b   Kuntz Hehner, Stefanie ^b   Pohl, Christoph ^a   Ehlgen, Alexander ^a   Schlosser, Thomas ^a   Omran, Heyder ^a   Becher, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble destruction; Contrast echocardiography; Emission power; Myocardial perfusion; Power pulse inversion imaging; Tissue harmonic signals

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

EMISSION POWER;

MEDICINE;

AFO 150; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; PERFLUTREN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESTRUCTION; DEVICE; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTOLE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS; MICROSPHERES; MYOCARDIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0035663954     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(01)00465-3     Document Type: Article

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