High-frequency 3-D color-flow imaging of the microcirculation

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-51

  Goertz, David E ^a,b   Yu, Joanne L ^a   Kerbel, Robert S ^a   Burns, Peter N ^a   Foster, F Stuart ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Color Doppler; Color flow; Doppler ultrasound; High frequency ultrasound; Microcirculation; Microvasculature; Tumor blood flow

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; TUMORS;

MICROVESSELS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0037277864     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00682-8     Document Type: Article

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