Color Doppler myocardial imaging: a new technique for the assessment of myocardial function.
Color Doppler myocardial imaging is a new technique that has been developed specifically to allow color Doppler imaging of myocardial wall motion rather than blood pool imaging. Such a technique has the potential to interrogate velocities, accelerations, and Doppler signal strength within the myocardial wall. Moreover, the concomitant enhancement of the myocardial Doppler signal after an intravenous injection of a transpulmonary echocardiographic contrast agent could permit the noninvasive assessment of regional myocardial perfusion. Thus this new imaging modality could be a valuable adjunct to the ultrasound assessment of myocardial ischemia.
Sutherland
G R
GR
Department of Cardiology, University of Edinburgh.
Stewart
M J
MJ
Groundstroem
K W
KW
Moran
C M
CM
Fleming
A
A
Guell-Peris
F J
FJ
Riemersma
R A
RA
Fenn
L N
LN
Fox
K A
KA
McDicken
W N
WN
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