[1] While contrast agents have not been a critical part of image acquisition in echocardiography, image quality may be suboptimal, particularly in obese patients, in critically ill, ventilated ...

The following is a summary of "Low-dose dobutamine stress myocardial contrast echocardiography for evaluating myocardial ...

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

The enhanced contrast means that in some cases ultrasound could be used instead of MRI and CT scans, which are more expensive and harmful to the body. The study was published in Biomaterials Advances.

In bubble contrast echocardiography, a sample of liquid (normally saline) is vigorously shaken to produce microbubbles, and then injected into an arm vein while the cardiac chambers are visualized ...