Indicator dilution models for the quantification of microvascular blood flow with bolus administration of ultrasound contrast agents

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1296-1310

  Strouthos, Costas ^a   Lampaskis, Marios ^a   Sboros, Vassilis ^b   Mcneilly, Alan ^c   Averkiou, Michalakis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; BEST FIT; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; DILUTION METHOD; DILUTION MODELS; DILUTION TECHNIQUE; DRIFT MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAMMA VARIATE FUNCTIONS; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; IMAGE DATA; LIVER METASTASIS; LOG-NORMAL FUNCTIONS; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; MICROVASCULAR; NORMAL FUNCTION; PEAK INTENSITY; THERAPY MONITORING; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROS; ULTRASONICS;

DILUTION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORPUS LUTEUM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SHEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953255183     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1550     Document Type: Article

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