title: Stress echocardiography, contrast echocardiography, and tissue characterization: applications for the future.
abstract: During the last three decades the application of ultrasonography has expanded rapidly. The information available to the clinician from ultrasound imaging today is vastly more significant than it was in the early years of the development of this technology. In addition to automatic information, there is an increasing potential to provide functional, dynamic perfusion and even cellular information about the heart. This article attempts to summarize briefly the advances in these areas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aronson
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D003287:Contrast Media; D004176:Dipyridamole; D004280:Dobutamine; D004452:Echocardiography; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D014665:Vasodilator Agents
chemical_list: D002316:Cardiotonic Agents; D003287:Contrast Media; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D004280:Dobutamine; D004176:Dipyridamole