DocumentCode
2881007
Title
Quantitative ultrasonic myocardial blood flow reserve reproducibility in men
Author
Vitale, DF ; Nicolino, A. ; Iannuzzi, GL ; Longobardi, G. ; Furgi, G. ; Cacciatore, F. ; Rengo, F.
Author_Institution
Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Telese Terme, Italy
fYear
2003
fDate
21-24 Sept. 2003
Firstpage
169
Lastpage
171
Abstract
Quantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow (MBF) by contrast echocardiography (CE) has the potential to become a routine procedure with continued methodologic enhancements. Improved hardware technology, better physical characteristics of the contrast agent (microbubbles), and the development of more advanced algorithms to compute blood flow underlie the advances in this field. The purpose of this study was to assess the reproducibility of quantitative CE blood flow parameters obtained with the destruction-reperfusion principle.
Keywords
bubbles; echocardiography; haemorheology; medical image processing; contrast echocardiography; destruction-reperfusion principle; hardware technology; microbubbles; quantitative ultrasonic myocardial blood flow; Blood flow; Coronary arteriosclerosis; Echocardiography; Hardware; Myocardium; Physics computing; Reproducibility of results; Transducers; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computers in Cardiology, 2003
ISSN
0276-6547
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8170-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CIC.2003.1291117
Filename
1291117
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