TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical applications of myocardial contrast echocardiography
AU - Kaul, Sanjiv
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Supported in part by grants-in-aid from the National Center of the American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, and from the Virginia Affiliate of the American Heart Association, Glen Allen, Virginia, and the Clinical Investigator (K08-HL01833) and the FIRST (R29-HL38345) Awards from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kaul is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (National Center).
PY - 1992/6/18
Y1 - 1992/6/18
N2 - Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a new technique that uses microbubbles of air in conjunction with simultaneously performed 2-dimensional echocardiographic imaging. Currently, it can be used to determine myocardial perfusion in the cardiac catheterization laboratory and the operating room. For myocardial contrast echocardiography to find a broader clinical application for the assessment of myocardial perfusion, it will be necessary to opacity the myocardium from venous injection of contrast in humans. In this regard, enhancement in bubble engineering, optimization of echocardiographic systems (greater sensitivity and dynamic range), and availability of digital image enhancement techniques will be required for myocardial contrast echocardiography to realize its full clinical potential by the year 2000.
AB - Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a new technique that uses microbubbles of air in conjunction with simultaneously performed 2-dimensional echocardiographic imaging. Currently, it can be used to determine myocardial perfusion in the cardiac catheterization laboratory and the operating room. For myocardial contrast echocardiography to find a broader clinical application for the assessment of myocardial perfusion, it will be necessary to opacity the myocardium from venous injection of contrast in humans. In this regard, enhancement in bubble engineering, optimization of echocardiographic systems (greater sensitivity and dynamic range), and availability of digital image enhancement techniques will be required for myocardial contrast echocardiography to realize its full clinical potential by the year 2000.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9149(92)90646-G
DO - 10.1016/0002-9149(92)90646-G
M3 - Article
C2 - 1605121
AN - SCOPUS:0026642692
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 69
SP - H46-H55
JO - The American journal of cardiology
JF - The American journal of cardiology
IS - 20
ER -