Detection of microembolic signals using power M-mode Doppler sonography in acute stroke patients with intracranial artery stenosis

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 422-426

  Tan, Teng Yeow ^a   Chen, Ting Yao ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Intracranial arterial stenosis; Power M Mode Doppler; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; M MODE DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROEMBOLISM; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TURBULENT FLOW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 50249173265     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20515     Document Type: Article

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