Myocardial contrast echocardiography yields best accuracy using quantitative analysis of digital data from pulse inversion technique: Comparison with second harmonic imaging and harmonic power Doppler during simultaneous dipyridamole stress SPECT studies

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 271-282

  Von Bibra, H ^a   Bone, D ^a   Niklasson, U ^a   Eurenius, L ^a   Hansen, A ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Myocardial perfusion imaging; SPECT; Video signal

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; FS 069; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0036889255     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euje.2002.0166     Document Type: Article

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