Non-invasive in vivo analysis of a murine aortic graft using high resolution ultrasound microimaging

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-249

  Rowinska, Zuzanna ^a   Zander, Simone ^b   Zernecke, Alma ^a   Jacobs, Michael ^a   Langer, Stephan ^a   Weber, Christian ^a   Merx, Marc W ^b   Koeppel, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerative vascular disease; High resolution ultrasound microimaging; Murine aortic transplantation; Non invasive graft monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA GRAFT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND MICROIMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; AORTA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84855576596     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.12.083     Document Type: Article

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