In vivo perfusion estimation using subharmonic contrast microbubble signals

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-21

  Forsberg, Flemming ^a,e   Liu, Ji Bin ^a   Shi, William T ^b,c   Ro, Raymond ^a   Lipcan, Kathryn J ^a   Deng, Xuedong ^a,d   Hall, Anne L ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo flow measurements; Perfusion estimation; Subharmonic imaging; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DRUG DOSAGE; ISOTOPES; TISSUE CULTURE;

IN VIVO FLOW MEASUREMENTS; LOGIQ 9 SCANNER; PERFUSION ESTIMATION; SHI TIME-INTENSITY CURVES; SUBHARMONIC IMAGING; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY PERFUSION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY; TIME;

EID: 30144436265     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.1.15     Document Type: Article

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