Novel quantitative assessment of myocardial perfusion by harmonic power Doppler imaging during myocardial contrast echocardiography

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-188

  Yamada, Satoshi ^a   Komuro, K ^a   Mikami, T ^b   Kudo, N ^c   Onozuka, H ^a   Goto, K ^a   Fujii, S ^a   Yamamoto, K ^c   Kitabatake, A ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HARMONIC POWER DOPPLER IMAGING; HEART CYCLE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOUND PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYSACCHARIDES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 12744269401     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.035857     Document Type: Article

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