Real-time perfusion imaging: A new echocardiographic technique for simultaneous evaluation of myocardial perfusion and contraction

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 545-555

  Sieswerda, Gertjan T ^a   Yang, Li ^a,b   Bakker De Boo, Mirjam ^a   Kamp, Otto ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Coronary artery disease; Myocardial perfusion; Power pulse inversion imaging

Indexed keywords

BR 14; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; NC 100100; PERFLEXANE; PERFLUTREN; PESDA; SONOVUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING;

EID: 0043166727     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03093.x     Document Type: Review

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