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1977 • 2,072 citations

Lack of myocardial perfusion immediately after successful thrombolysis. A predictor of poor recovery of left ventricular function in anterior myocardial infarction.

1992 • 1,068 citations

Echocardiography of the Aortic Root

1968 • 910 citations

NHLBI funding policies. Enhancing stability, predictability, and cost control.

1994 • 765 citations

Microvascular integrity indicates myocellular viability in patients with recent myocardial infarction. New insights using myocardial contrast echocardiography.

1994 • 377 citations

Safety and efficacy of a new transpulmonary ultrasound contrast agent: Initial multicenter clinical results

1990 • 349 citations

Albumin Microbubble Echo-Contrast Material as an Enhancer for Ultrasound Accelerated Thrombolysis

1995 • 339 citations

Transient Myocardial Contrast After Initial Exposure to Diagnostic Ultrasound Pressures With Minute Doses of Intravenously Injected Microbubbles

1995 • 322 citations

The behavior of sonicated albumin microbubbles within the microcirculation: a basis for their use during myocardial contrast echocardiography.

1989 • 276 citations

In vivo myocardial kinetics of air-filled albumin microbubbles during myocardial contrast echocardiography. Comparison with radiolabeled red blood cells.

1994 • 264 citations

Opacification and border delineation improvement in patients with suboptimal endocardial border definition in routine echocardiography: Results of the phase III albunex multicenter trial

1993 • 243 citations

Second harmonic ultrasonic blood perfusion measurement

1993 • 242 citations

Principles and recent developments in ultrasound contrast agents

1991 • 237 citations

Functional significance of collateral blood flow in patients with recent acute myocardial infarction. A study using myocardial contrast echocardiography.

1992 • 235 citations

Enhancement of fibrinolysis in vitro by ultrasound.

1992 • 232 citations

Effect of ultrasound on tissue-type plasminogen activator-induced thrombolysis.

1992 • 220 citations

Contrast echocardiography in acute myocardial ischemia: I. In vivo determination of total left ventricular “area at risk”

1984 • 201 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography: a reproducible technique of myocardial opacification for identifying regional perfusion deficits.

1983 • 199 citations

The source of ultrasound contrast effect

1980 • 195 citations

Comparison of Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography and Low-Dose Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Predicting Recovery of Left Ventricular Function After Coronary Revascularization in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease

1995 • 193 citations

Simulated Capillary Blood Flow Measurement Using a Nonlinear Ultrasonic Contrast Agent

1992 • 187 citations

Assessment of regional myocardial blood flow with myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography

1989 • 178 citations

Identification of Ultrasound Echoes from the Left Ventricle by Use of Intracardiac Injections of Indocyanine Green

1970 • 175 citations

Quantification of myocardial perfusion with myocardial contrast echocardiography during left atrial injection of contrast. Implications for venous injection.

1994 • 148 citations

Second harmonic imaging of an intravenously administered echocardiographic contrast agent

1996 • 139 citations

Peripheral intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography using a 2% dodecafluoropentane emulsion: Identification of myocardial risk area and infarct size in the canine model of ischemia

1995 • 130 citations

Assessment of myocardial perfusion in humans by contrast echocardiography. I. Evaluation of regional coronary reserve by peak contrast intensity

1988 • 129 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography in humans. II. Assessment of coronary blood flow reserve

1988 • 118 citations

Ultrasound enhancement of thrombolysis and reperfusion in vitro

1993 • 110 citations

Hydrogen peroxide contrast--enhanced two-dimensional echocardiography: real-time in vivo delineation of regional myocardial perfusion.

1983 • 109 citations

Contrast echocardiography for evaluation of myocardial perfusion: Effects of coronary angioplasty

1986 • 108 citations

Contrast Agents for Diagnostic Ultrasound

1972 • 102 citations

Echocardiographic contrast studies: initial experience.

1975 • 97 citations

Noninvasive identification of acute myocardial ischemia and reperfusion with contrast ultrasound using intravenous perfluoropropane-exposed sonicated dextrose albumin

1995 • 84 citations

Assessment of regional myocardial perfusion by contrast echocardiography. II. Detection of changes in transmural and subendocardial perfusion during dipyridamole-induced hyperemia in a model of critical coronary stenosis

1989 • 83 citations

In vivo relation of intramyocardial blood volume to myocardial perfusion. Evidence supporting microvascular site for autoregulation.

1992 • 82 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography in experimental coronary artery occlusion with a new intravenously administered contrast agent

1995 • 75 citations

Visually discernible myocardial echocardiographic contrast after intravenous injection of sonicated dextrose albumin microbubbles containing high molecular weight, less soluble gases

1995 • 75 citations

Clinical evaluation of left heart Doppler contrast enhancement by a saccharide-based transpulmonary contrast agent

1995 • 71 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography for the assessment of coronary blood flow reserve: Validation in humans

1993 • 69 citations

AHA president's letter.

1995 • 67 citations

Visualization of subendocardial myocardial ischemia with myocardial contrast echocardiography in humans.

1989 • 66 citations

Contrast echocardiographic mapping of collateralized myocardium in humans before and after coronary angioplasty

1990 • 63 citations

Detection of Coronary Stenoses and Quantification of the Degree and Spatial Extent of Blood Flow Mismatch During Coronary Hyperemia With Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography

1995 • 61 citations

On-line intraoperative quantitation of regional myocardial perfusion during coronary artery bypass graft operations with myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography

1992 • 60 citations

Coronary collaterals assessed with myocardial contrast echocardiography in healed myocardial infarction

1990 • 60 citations

Effect of Static Pressure on the Disappearance Rate of Specific Echocardiographic Contrast Agents

1994 • 58 citations

Acoustic Lability of Albumin Microspheres

1994 • 57 citations

Clinical application of transpulmonary contrast-enhanced Doppler technique in the assessment of severity of aortic stenosis

1992 • 55 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography: relation of collateral perfusion to extent of injury and severity of contractile dysfunction in a canine model of coronary thrombosis and reperfusion

1995 • 52 citations

Myocardial distribution of cardioplegic solution after retrograde delivery in patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures

1993 • 48 citations

Improvement of endocardial border delineation in suboptimal stressechocardiograms using the new left heart contrast agent SH U 508 A

1994 • 44 citations

Intracoronary albunex. Its effects on left ventricular hemodynamics, function, and coronary sinus flow in humans.

1993 • 41 citations

Relation between anterograde blood flow through a coronary artery and the size of the perfusion bed it supplies: Experimental and clinical implications

1991 • 40 citations

Digital angiographic impulse response analysis of regional myocardial perfusion. Estimation of coronary flow, flow reserve, and distribution volume by compartmental transit time measurement in a canine model.

1991 • 40 citations

Quantitative assessment of the immediate results of coronary angioplasty by myocardial contrast echocardiography

1989 • 39 citations

Contrast opacification of left ventricular myocardium following intravenous administration of sonicated albumin microspheres

1991 • 35 citations

Effects of left ventricular pressure on sonicated albumin microbubbles: Evaluation using an isolated rabbit heart model

1994 • 29 citations

Evaluation of collateral blood flow by myocardial contrast enhanced echocardiography.

1988 • 29 citations

Effect of pressure on echocardiographic videodensity from sonicated albumin: an in vitro model.

1995 • 26 citations

Contrast echocardiography in single or common ventricle.

1977 • 26 citations

Pulsatile pressure affects the disappearance of echocardiographic contrast agents

1995 • 23 citations

Blood-Pool Enhancement with SH U 508 A: Results of Phase II Clinical Trials

1991 • 23 citations

Echo-phonocardiographic and contrast studies in conditions associated with systemic arterial trunk overriding the ventricular septum: truncus arteriosus, tetralogy of Fallot, and pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect.

1976 • 23 citations

Comparison of various agents in contrast enhancement of color doppler flow images: An in vitro study

1993 • 21 citations

Intraoperative myocardial contrast echocardiography for assessment of regional bypass perfusion

1990 • 18 citations

Usefulness of myocardial contrast echocardipgraphy in detecting the immediate changes in anterograde blood flow reserve after coronary angioplasty

1993 • 17 citations

Improvement of Subendocardial Myocardial Perfusion After Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

1995 • 16 citations

Contrast echocardiography for evaluation of left ventricular flow dynamics using densitometric analysis.

1993 • 14 citations