Comparison of Transcranial Brain Tissue Perfusion Images between Ultraharmonic, Second Harmonic, and Power Harmonic Imaging

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 687-693

  Shiogai, Toshiyuki ^a   Takayasu, Natsuko ^b   Mizuno, Toshiki ^b   Nakagawa, Masanori ^b   Furuhata, Hiroshi ^c  

^a Kyoto Takeda Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Imaging techniques; Perfusion, brain; Ultrasonography, Doppler, color, transcranial

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED BACKSCATTER ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSACCHARIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 1442348269     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000116102.15636.65     Document Type: Article

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