Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 156-165 , March 1996

Contrast echocardiographic quantification of regional myocardial perfusion: Validation with an isolated rabbit heart model

  • Victor Mor-Avi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Victor Mor-Avi, PhD, MC 5084, the University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637.
    • Recipient of the Fulbright Junior Researcher Award and Roths-child Fellow.
    • ,
  • Roberto M. Lang, MD

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Kimberly A. Robinson, BS

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Claudia Korcarz, DVM

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Arthur F. Ng, MD

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Philippe Vignon, MD

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Solange Akselrod, PhD

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Sanjeev G. Shroff, PhD

      Affiliations

    • From the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • the School of Physics, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv, Israel

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☆ Supported in part by Molecular Biosystems Inc., San Diego, California, and the Israeli Ministry of Health.

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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 156-165 , March 1996

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