Quantification of the microvascular blood flow of the ovine corpus luteum with contrast ultrasound

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 255-258

  Strouthos, Costas ^a   Lambaskis, Marios ^a   Sboros, Vassilis ^b   Docherty, Joan ^c   McNeilly, Alan ^c   Averkiou, Michalakis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC Reproductive Biology Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis anti angiogenesis; Indicator dilution method; Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANGIOGENESIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVES; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; DILUTION METHOD; GAMMA VARIATE FUNCTIONS; LOG-NORMAL FUNCTIONS; RANDOM WALK MODELING; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77952814885     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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