Difference of optimal dose of contrast agent between gray-scale and power doppler imaging in assessing graded coronary stenosis by myocardial contrast echocardiography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 550-558

  Masugata, Hisashi ^a   DeMaria, Anthony N ^b   Peters, Barry ^b   Lafitte, Stephane ^b   Strachan, G Monet ^b   Kwan, Oi Ling ^b   Ohmori, Koji ^a   Mizushige, Katsufumi ^a   Kohno, Masakazu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial blood flow; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0042328279     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RLI.0000073641.93901.b9     Document Type: Article

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