Clinical usefulness of SonoVue contrast echocardiography: the Thoraxcentre experience
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Detection of resting myocardial perfusion defects by SonoVue myocardial contrast echocardiography.
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عنوان ژورنال: Netherlands Heart Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1568-5888,1876-6250
DOI: 10.1007/bf03085955