title: New ultrasound contrast agents and technological innovations.
abstract: Further development of clinical diagnostic procedures, as well as new diagnostic techniques, requires ultrasound specific contrast agents as well as technological innovations. This paper reviews contrast agents developed in the last decade, which are all based on free gas or encapsulated gas bubbles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology and Experimental Echocardiography, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. jong@tch.fgg.eur.nl
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: de Jong
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Ten Cate
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003287:Contrast Media / Q000737:chemistry; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods; D017585:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media