title: [Contrast enhancement using the triggered imaging].
abstract: Triggered imaging has been introduced as a practical method to improve contrast echo enhancement by T.R. Porter, Nebraska, U.S.A. in 1995. It requires a simple instrumentation, ECG or internal timer, for intermittent ultrasound imaging that reduces contrast attenuation due to ultrasound exposure. Currently, a clear myocardial contrast echo done by intravenous injection of contrast agent has become a common result when the latest generation agents, machines and the new methods are available. Contrast echocardiography is expected to be able to evaluate myocardial perfusion for future direction.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Masuyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuzuya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hori
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003287:Contrast Media; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D007089:Image Enhancement
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media