Measurement of global cerebral circulation time using power duplex echo-contrast bolus tracking

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 129-132

  Schreiber, Stephan Joachim ^a,b   Kauert, Andreas ^a,b   Doepp, Florian ^a,b   Valdueza, José Manuel ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Königin Elisabeth Herzberge Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral circulation time; Echo contrast bolus tracking; Internal carotid artery; Internal jugular vein; Levovist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION TIME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; STATISTICS; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0037245179     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067141     Document Type: Article

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