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Microbubble fluid dynamics of echocontrast

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Advances in Echo Imaging Using Contrast Enhancement

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Underlying principles of echocontrast effects are outlined in this section, which aims to reflect the recent advances and detailed reports presented in subsequent chapters. To place microbubble phenomena in context, it was deemed useful to consider parallel multidisciplinary efforts in such areas as hydrodynamic cavitation, diving physiology and bubbly flow processes. Although there are many applications of ultrasound contrast, one difficult but potentially realizable objective was singled out: the quantitation of myocardial perfusion with intravenously administered gaseous bubbles.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Navin C. Nanda MD (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories) (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories)

  2. The Kirklin Clinic, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Navin C. Nanda MD (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories) (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories)

  3. Clinical Development Diagnostics of Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

    Reinhard Schlief Dr Med Dipl Phys (Head of Magnetic Resonance and Ultrasound Contrast Media) (Head of Magnetic Resonance and Ultrasound Contrast Media)

  4. Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

    Barry B. Goldberg MD (Professor of Radiology and Director) (Professor of Radiology and Director)

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Meerbaum, S. (1997). Microbubble fluid dynamics of echocontrast. In: Nanda, N.C., Schlief, R., Goldberg, B.B. (eds) Advances in Echo Imaging Using Contrast Enhancement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5704-9_2

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