Real-Time Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography for Assessing Perfusion and Function in Healthy and Infarcted Wistar Rats

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-55

  Wasmeier, Gerald H ^a   Zimmermann, Wolfram H ^b   Schineis, Nico ^a   Melnychenko, Ivan ^b   Voigt, Jens Uwe ^c   Eschenhagen, Thomas ^b   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Nixdorff, Uwe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental echocardiography; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial perfusion; Myocardial regional wall motion; Rats

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL IMAGING; RATS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EXPERIMENTAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (MCE); MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL REGIONAL WALL MOTION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; OXYGEN; SONOVUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 37049024959     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.06.027     Document Type: Article

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