Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With Contrast Ultrasound

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 176-187

  Porter, Thomas R ^a   Xie, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

myocardial contrast echocardiography; ultrasound contrast

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCIRCULATION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 75949092579     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.09.024     Document Type: Review

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