Real-Time Myocardial Contrast Stress Echocardiography Using Bolus Application

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1724-1731

  Wasmeier, Gerald H ^a   Asmussen, Sven ^a   Voigt, Jens Uwe ^b   Flachskampf, Frank A ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Nixdorff, Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c European Prevention Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Myocardial contrast echocardiography; Myocardial perfusion; Power Doppler modulation; Wall motion analysis

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; POWER DOPPLER MODULATION; WALL MOTION ANALYSIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MODULATION; PHOTOTRANSISTORS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 54049085804     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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