Enhanced Clot Dissolution In Vitro by 1.8-MHz Pulsed Ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 523-526

  Eggers, Jürgen ^a   Ossadnik, Stefan ^b   Seidel, Günter ^b  

^a Asklepios Hospital North   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute Ischemic Stroke; Thrombolysis; Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; ACUTE STROKES; BLOOD SAMPLES; CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS; CLINICAL STUDIES; CONCENTRATION OF; DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES; HIGH FREQUENCIES; IN-VITRO; INSONATION; LOW ENERGIES; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; TEMPORAL BONES; THROMBOLYSIS; TISSUE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT LOSS; WHOLE BLOODS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; COAGULATION; DISSOLUTION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALTEPLASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONOTHROMBOLYSIS; STROKE; ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 60249088240     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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