Effect of microbubble exposure to ultrasound on quantitation of myocardial perfusion

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 503-509

  Leong Poi, Howard ^a   Swales, James ^a   Jayaweera, Ananda R ^a   Bin, Jian Ping ^a   Kaul, Sanjiv ^a   Lindner, Jonathan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbubbles; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

NC 100100;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOG; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROBUBBLE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MICROSPHERES; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 21644467927     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.40001.x     Document Type: Article

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