Doppler energy: a new acquisition technique for the transthoracic detection of myocardial perfusion defects with the use of a venous contrast agent

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Official Publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
A TuchnitzA Schömig

Abstract

This animal experiment was designed to study whether the new technique of Doppler energy imaging could display myocardial perfusion abnormalities with the use of a combination of transthoracic imaging and right atrial injection of a myocardial contrast agent. A series of 11 pigs were studied during (1) normal perfusion, (2) dipyridamole-induced coronary dilatation, and (3) during and after temporary occlusion of the left anterior descending or circumflex artery after a right atrial injection of 8 ml Levovist, 400 mg/ml. Short-axis views were obtained with the four following imaging modes: gray scale imaging (two-dimensional and M-mode), Doppler energy imaging (two-dimensional and M-mode). Visual inspection and off-line video densitometry (results expressed in arbitrary videointensity units 0 to 255) with digital background subtraction were performed. Doppler energy was significantly more sensitive in detecting the presence of contrast than gray scale imaging (background subtracted peak videointensity 32 +/- 17 versus 17 +/- 12, p < 0.001). Mean background-subtracted videointensity increased during dipyridamole-induced coronary hyperemia (40 +/- 14 versus 31 +/- 9, p < 0.003) using Doppler energy technique. Doppler energy imagin...Continue Reading

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