BACKGROUND: The ability to assess myocardial perfusion in small animals is important,
especially to investigate models of myocardial ischemia. Myocardial perfusion is usually …

Objectives Few intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography trials have evaluated
myocardial perfusion in small animals. The feasibility of using intravenous myocardial …

BACKGROUND: We recently developed a new approach for contrast echocardiographic
quantification of myocardial perfusion, based on brief interruptions of contrast infusion …

The preceding article by Santoso et al.(1) and an experimental study by Gillam et al.(2) in
this issue of JACC represent a new phase of research into myocardial perfusion imaging by …

Previous studies showed that myocardial contrast echocardiography can be used to detect
relative regional underperfusion in a canine model of critical coronary stenoses. The aim of …

There are a few issues about myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) that I would like
to highlight. First, it is perhaps the only experimentally used technique for measuring the …

Background. Dynamic changes of myocardial blood flow have been observed after
reperfusion of an occluded coronary artery. MCE performed by intracoronary contrast …

The quantification of myocardial perfusion by contrast echocardiography has proven to be
an elusive goal. Initial hopes were pinned on the simple application of indicator dilution …

Although the ability to visualize the microvascular circulation by injection of microbubbles
has been recognized for over 30 years, only recently the considerable progress in both …

Objectives: The aim of this research was to evaluate the potential for myocardial contrast
echocardiography (MCE) to provoke microscale bioeffects in a canine model. Background …