The role of contrast enhancement in echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function

Power Doppler US: a potentially useful alternative to mean frequency-based color Doppler US.

1994 • 854 citations

Improved left ventricular endocardial border delineation and opacification with OPTISON (FS069), a new echocardiographic contrast agent

1998 • 296 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

Administration of an intravenous perfluorocarbon contrast agent improves echocardiographic determination of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction: comparison with cine magnetic resonance imaging

1998 • 222 citations

Use of harmonic imaging without echocardiographic contrast to improve two-dimensional image quality

1998 • 165 citations

Contrast echocardiography clarifies uninterpretable wall motion in intensive care unit patients

2000 • 147 citations

Combined Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Regional Left Ventricular Function by Analysis of Contrast-Enhanced Power Modulation Images

2001 • 140 citations

Contrast dobutamine stress echocardiography: Clinical practice assessment in 300 consecutive patients

2001 • 140 citations

Diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness of contrast echocardiography on evaluation of cardiac function in technically very difficult patients in the intensive care unit

2002 • 135 citations

Enhancement of Left Ventricular Cavity Opacification by Harmonic Imaging After Venous Injection of Albunex

1997 • 105 citations

Improved endocardial visualization with second harmonic imaging compared with fundamental two-dimensional echocardiographic imaging

1999 • 70 citations

The Role of Echocardiographic Harmonic Imaging and Contrast Enhancement for Improvement of Endocardial Border Delineation

2000 • 52 citations

Automated endocardial border detection and evaluation of left ventricular function from contrast-enhanced images using modified acoustic quantification

2002 • 30 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography with power Doppler imaging

2000 • 27 citations

Smaller intravenous perfluorocarbon-containing microbubbles produce greater myocardial contrast with intermittent harmonic imaging and better delineation of risk area during acute myocardial ischemia

1997 • 21 citations

Objective assessment of left ventricular wall motion from contrast-enhanced power modulation images

2002 • 19 citations

Power Doppler Imaging as a Basis for Automated Endocardial Border Detection During Left Ventricular Contrast Enhancement

2000 • 12 citations