Enhancing effects of SonoVue, a microbubble sonographic contrast agent, on high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation in rabbit livers in vivo

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-476

  Luo, Wen ^a   Zhou, Xiaodong ^a   Ren, Xiaolong ^a   Zheng, Minjuan ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   He, Guangbin ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; High intensity focused ultrasound; Microbubble; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CONTRAST AGENTS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MICROBUBBLES; RABBIT;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; MICROBUBBLE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 34047209031     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.4.469     Document Type: Article

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