As a specialist in internal medicine/cardiologist, I found it odd that echocardiography is listed as the second item in the list of basic diagnostic tools, I did not gain clarity about the ...

Myocardial contrast echocardiography utilizes intravenously injected gas-filled microspheres as acoustically active red blood cell tracers. During ultrasound imaging, unimpeded microsphere transit ...

Microbubbles have two basic components—the outer shell, (designed to have varying resistance to ultrasound destruction and permeability to gas) and a gaseous component (e.g. a high-molecular ...