title: Color Doppler myocardial imaging: a new technique for the assessment of myocardial function.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Edinburgh.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Groundstroem
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Moran
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Guell-Peris
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Riemersma
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Fenn
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: McDicken
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003287:Contrast Media; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008961:Models, Structural; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media