Correlation of transthoracic Doppler echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging in measuring left anterior descending artery flow velocity and time-course of dipyridamole-induced coronary flow increase

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-72

  Koskenvuo, Juha W ^a   Saraste, M ^a   Niemi, P ^a   Knuuti, J ^b   Sakuma, H ^c   Toikka, J O ^a   Komu, M ^a   Jarvisalo M J ^a   Hartiala, J J ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFR; Coronary blood flow velocity; Dipyridamole; Echocardiography; MRI; TTE

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; TRANSTHORACIC DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037266957     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365510310000501-1     Document Type: Article

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