Transcranial ultrasound brain perfusion assessment with a contrast agent-specific imaging mode: Results of a two-center trial

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2283-2285

  Hölscher, Thilo ^a,f   Wilkening, Wilko ^c   Draganski, Bogdan ^b   Meves, Saskia H ^c   Eyding, Jens ^e   Voit, Heinz ^b   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^b   Przuntek, Horst ^c   Postert, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d St Vincenz KH Paderborn ^*  (Germany)

^e ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^f UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Contrast imaging; Transcranial ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 26444434793     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000179038.63109.b0     Document Type: Article

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