Exploratory analysis of estimated acoustic peak rarefaction pressure, recanalization, and outcome in the transcranial ultrasound in clinical sonothrombolysis trial

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 354-360

  Barlinn, Kristian ^a,b   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,c,d   Molina, Carlos A ^e   Alexandrov, Dmitri A ^f   Schafer, Mark E ^g   Alleman, John ^f   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^f Cerevast Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^g Sonic Tech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischemic stroke; Therapeutic thrombolysis, transcranial Doppler; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; MICROSPHERE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; PROCEDURES;

AGED; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84879320089     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.21978     Document Type: Article

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