Detection of perivascular blood flow in vivo by contrast-enhanced intracoronary ultrasonography and image analysis: An animal study

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1319-1323

  Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a,e   Papaioannou, Theodore G ^a   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^c   O'Malley, Sean M ^c   Naghavi, Morteza ^d   Filis, Konstantinos ^b   Sanidas, Elias A ^a   Papalois, Apostolos ^a   Stamatopoulos, Ilias ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d Association for Eradication of Heart Attack   (United States)

^e NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Intracoronary ultrasonography (IVUS); Intravascular ultrasound; Microbubbles; Microcirculation; Vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY VESSELS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBUBBLES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34848826900     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04721.x     Document Type: Article

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