Premature Cardiac Contractions Produced Efficiently By External High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1101-1110

  Hersch, Anat ^a   Adam, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acoustic pressure; Bioeffect; Heart; HIFU; Microbubbles; Premature ventricular contractions

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; BIOEFFECT; HIFU; MICROBUBBLES; PREMATURE VENTRICULAR CONTRACTION;

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE;

ULTRASONICS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROBUBBLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROBUBBLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 79959210814     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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