Heterogeneity of contrast effect during intermittent second harmonic myocardial contrast echocardiography in healthy patients

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1448-1452

  Ay, Taniyel ^b   D'Hondt, Anne Marie ^b   Pasquet, Agnès ^b   Melin, Jacques A ^b   Vanoverschelde, Jean Louis J ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0036885768     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.126167     Document Type: Article

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