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Quantification Methods in Contrast Echocardiography

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Contrast Echocardiography in Clinical Practice

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Ultrasonographic contrast agents in echocardiography are a rapidly develo** research field. Several new acquisition tech niques particularly suited to the acquisition of contrast images have been made available in the last few years, although the clinical usefulness of most of them is still under evaluation.

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Ledesma-Carbayo, M.J., Malpica, N., Santos, A., Fernández, M.A.G., Desco, M. (2004). Quantification Methods in Contrast Echocardiography. In: Contrast Echocardiography in Clinical Practice. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2125-9_4

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