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Advances in Echo Imaging Using Contrast Enhancement

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Navin C. Nanda

    1. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
      Echocardiography Laboratories, The Kirklin Clinic, University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, Birmingham, USA

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  2. Reinhard Schlief

    1. Clinical Development Diagnostics of Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. History, basics and safety of contrast agents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Contrast echocardiography — a historical perspective

      • Pravin M. Shah
      Pages 3-8

    3. Principles of echo contrast

      • Samuel Meerbaum
      Pages 9-42

    4. Conventional echo-contrast agents. Hand preparation, sonication, properties

      • Gian Paolo Bezante, David Harpaz, Shimon Reisner, Richard S. Meltzer
      Pages 43-56

    5. Albumin spheres as contrast agents

      • Jeffrey G. Wiencek, Steven B. Feinstein
      Pages 57-70

    6. Saccharide based contrast agents

      • Reinhard Schlief, Rolf Schürmann, Thomas Balzer, Michael Zomack, Hans-Peter Niendorf
      Pages 71-96

    7. Echocontrast enhancers — how safe are they?

      • Navin C. Nanda
      Pages 97-110

    8. Gas bubble dynamics in acoustic fields and their biological consequences

      • A. Roy Williams, Gaby Kubowicz, Reinhard Schlief
      Pages 111-131

  3. Clinical uses of contrast agents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Clinical uses of contrast agents — practical considerations

      • Janine R. Shapiro, Shimon A. Reisner, Richard S. Meltzer
      Pages 135-145

    3. Structure identification by transthoracic contrast echocardiography

      • Jayesh Patel, Jonathan Cox, Assad Movahed, William Reeves, Navin C. Nanda
      Pages 147-166

    4. Identification of right sided structures by contrast transesophageal echocardiography

      • Bijoy K. Khandheria
      Pages 167-181

    5. Left ventricular contrast echocardiography — echoventriculography

      • Raimund Erbel, Rainer Zotz, Susanne Mohr-Kahaly, Norbert Wittlich, Frank Schön, Eckhard Steinmetz et al.
      Pages 183-201

    6. Diagnosis of patent foramen ovale by transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography

      • Dirk Hausmann, Andreas Mügge, Werner G. Daniel
      Pages 203-216

    7. Spontaneous echographic contrast — etiology and clinical implications

      • Rony L. Shammas, William C. Reeves, Navin C. Nanda
      Pages 217-229

    8. Contrast enhanced Doppler in the noninvasive measurement of pulmonary artery pressure

      • Nelson B. Schiller
      Pages 231-239

    9. Contrast enhanced Doppler in the assessment of aortic stenosis

      • Satoshi Nakatani, Kunio Miyatake
      Pages 241-251

    10. Contrast enhanced color Doppler — basics and potential clinical value

      • Harald Becher, Helene von Bibra, Michael Walther, Kilian Glänzer, Hans Vetter
      Pages 253-271

    11. Contrast enhanced color Doppler in the assessment of mitral regurgitation

      • Helene von Bibra, Christian Firschke, Harald Becher, Hans-Peter Emslander, Albert Schömig
      Pages 273-287
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` Nanda and Schlief have edited and produced an authoritative and up-to-date reference book for both experienced and inexperienced echocardiologists. I strongly recommend this publication to those interested in this field. '
International Journal of Cardiology, 45 (1994)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

    Navin C. Nanda

  • Echocardiography Laboratories, The Kirklin Clinic, University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, Birmingham, USA

    Navin C. Nanda

  • Clinical Development Diagnostics of Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

    Reinhard Schlief

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Echo Imaging Using Contrast Enhancement

  • Editors: Navin C. Nanda, Reinhard Schlief

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8126-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-8128-8Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8126-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 405

  • Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cardiology, Ultrasound, Imaging / Radiology

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