Optical microscopic findings of the behavior of perflubutane microbubbles outside and inside kupffer cells during diagnostic ultrasound examination

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 829-836

  Liu, Guang Jian ^a,b   Moriyasu, Fuminori ^a   Hirokawa, Tomihiko ^a   Rexiati, Munire ^a   Yamada, Masahiko ^a   Imai, Yasuharu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b First Affiliated Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Behavior; Kupffer cells; Microbubbles; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

PERFLUBUTANE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUOROCARBON;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG STABILITY; ECHOGRAPHY; KUPFFER CELL; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICROBUBBLE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOSCOPE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROCARBONS; KUPFFER CELLS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 59649103410     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181852719     Document Type: Article

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