Contrast Echocardiography: Experience in a Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 919-923

  Lester, Steven J ^a   Askew, John W ^a   Hurst, R Todd ^a   Moreno, Carlos A ^a   Hentz, Joseph G ^a   Wood, Lori A ^a   Simpson, Rose A ^a   Schneck, Stephen L ^a   Tyler, Rochelle ^a   Chaliki, Hari P ^a   Lynch, John J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFLUTREN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG USE; ENDOCARDIUM; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRUM; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33745649856     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.01.025     Document Type: Article

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