Quantification of regional myocardial perfusion using semiautomated translation-free analysis of contrast-enhanced power modulation images

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-123

  Caiani, Enrico G ^a,b   Lang, Roberto M ^a   Caslini, Serena ^b   Collins, Keith A ^a   Korcarz, Claudia E ^a   Mor Avi, Victor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUTREN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037292613     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2003.9     Document Type: Article

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