Assessment of regional myocardial blood flow with myocardial contrast echocardiography: An experimental study

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 409-416

  Zhang, Wen Zhu ^a   Zha, Dao Gang ^a   Cheng, Guan Xun ^a   Yang, Shao Qin ^a   Huang, Xiao Bo ^a   Qin, Jian Xin ^b   Liu, Yi Li ^a  

^a FIRST MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial blood flow; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Myocardial viability; Radiolabeled microsphere

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; MYOCARDIUM; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICS;

EID: 3042681150     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03008.x     Document Type: Article

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