Session DD: Contrast Agents

Chair: K.K. Shung, Pennsylvania State University
Regency West, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 6 ,1996, Hyatt Regency Hotel.

8:00 a.m. MIM DD-1 Characterization of a LIPID Based Ultrasonic Contrast Agent
D.W. Yellowhair and M.E. Crowell, IMARX Pharmaceutical Corp., Tucson, AZ
8:15 a.m. MIM DD-2 ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES OF SHELL-ENCAPSULATED, GAS-FILLED ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT PARTICLES
L. HOFF 1 2, P.C. SONTUM 1 and B. HOFF 2, 1 Nycomed Imaging AS, Research and Development, Oslo, Norway, and 2 Dept. of Telecommunications, Acoustics group, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
8:30 a.m. MIM DD-3 SIMULATION OF IN VIVO STANDARD PROPERTIES OF CONTRAST AGENTS FROM IN VITRO MEASUREMENTS
A. BOUAKAZ*, N. DE JONG**, L. GERFAULT*, C. CACHARD*, *Creatis, INSA Villeurbanne, France, **Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
8:45 a.m. MBF DD-4 Harmonic Doppler imaging of transient echoes from disrupted microbubbles: a method to image myocardial perfusion
P. N. Burns, J E Powers*, S. R. Wilson?, T Fritzsch?? , Depts Medical Biophysics and ?Radiology, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, *ATL, Bothell, WA, ??Schering Ag, Berlin, Germany
9:00 a.m. INV DD-5 Characteristics of Contrast Agents and 2D Imaging
Dept. of Cardiology and Experimental Echocardiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands



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