Contrast-enhanced ultrasound and microcirculation: Efficiency through dynamics-current developments

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 171-186

  Clevert, D A ^a   D'Anastasi, M ^a   Jung, E M ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS); image fusion; microvascularisation; perfusion analysis

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; EMBOCEPT; STARCH MICROSPHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN PERFUSION; PERFUSION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SOFT TISSUE; STENT; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

AORTIC ANEURYSM; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84872915133     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2012-1584     Document Type: Article

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