Ultrasound Contrast Agents

1. I Physical Principles of Ultrasound Contrast Agents 2. Basic Scattering from Contrast Bubbles - Composition of Contrast Microbubbles 3. Physics of Contrast Microbubbles 4. Attenuation Effects in Contrast Imaging; Nonlinear Scattering from Contrast Bubbles - Physics of Harmonic Generations from Contrast Bubbles 5. Harmonic Imaging with Contrast Microbubbles 6. Sub-harmonic Imaging with Contrast Microbubbles; Destruction of Contrast Bubbles - Acoustic and Optical Detection of Bubble Destructio n 7. Accelerated Intermittent Imaging 8. Acoustic Emission Imaging; Quantitative Measurements with Contrast Bubbles - Contrast Kinetics and Doppler Intensiotometry 9. Blood Flow and Perfusion Measurements 10. Pressure Measurements Using Contrast Microbubbles; Bioeffects and Safety of Ultrasound Contrast - In Vitro Measurements of Bioeffects 11. In Vivo Measurements of Bioeffects 12. II Contrast Echocardiography Evaluation of the Ventricles - Methods of Echocardiographic Contrast Image Enhancemen t 13. Evaluation of the Heart at Rest 14. Evaluation of the Heart During Exercise and Pharmacologic Stress Testing 15. Three-Dimensional Echocardiography; Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion - Myocardial Infarction 16. Ultrasound Contrast Agents to Detect Myocardial Perfusion During Stress Echocardiography 17. Intraoperative TEE 18. Enhancement of Doppler Echocardiography 19. III Radiological Applications of Contrast 20. The Utility of Contrast in the Extra-Cranial Carotid Ultrasound Examination 21. Transcranial Doppler 22. Imaging of Vascular Pathology 23. Applications in the Hepatobiliary System 24. Applications in the Renal System 25. Applications in the Alimentary Tract 26. Applications in the Genitourinary Tract 27. Breast and Prostate 28. IV Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound Contrast Agents 29. Thrombus-Specific Contrast Agents for Imaging and Thrombolysis Targeted Drug Delivery, eg Antisense, Endothelial Growth Factor 30. Targeted Microbubbles - Focus on Atherosclerotic Endothelial Cells 31. Health Economic Evaluations and Ultrasound Contrast Agents: A Primer 32. The Ultrasound Contrast Agent Field: A Commercial Perspective