Assessment of skeletal muscle perfusion using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 431-441

  Krix, Martin ^a,b   Weber, Marc André ^a   Krakowski Roosen, Holger ^a   Huttner, Hagen B ^a   Delorme, Stefan ^a   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^a   Hildebrandt, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasonography; Muscle perfusion; Replenishment kinetics of microbubbles; Venous occlusion plethysmography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BICEPS; MICROBUBBLES; PERFUSION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MICROBUBBLE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MUSCLE PERFUSION; MYOSITIS; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

EID: 16344392999     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.4.431     Document Type: Article

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