Detection of coronary artery stenosis with power Doppler imaging

Circulation

Volumn 103, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 2624-2630

  Villanueva, Flordeliza S ^a   Gertz, Edward W ^b   Csikari, Melissa ^a   Pulido, Gregory ^b   Fisher, David ^a   Sklenar, Jiri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Point Biomedical Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Coronary disease; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PB 127; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; POWER DOPPLER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0035967466     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.103.21.2624     Document Type: Article

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