Quantitative detection of myocardial ischaemia by stress echocardiography; a comparison with SPECT
Aims: Real-time perfusion (RTP) adenosine stress echocardiography (ASE) can be used to visually evaluate myocardial ischaemia. The RTP power modulation technique angio-mode (AM), provides images for off-line perfusion quantification using Qontrast (R) software, generating values of peak signal intensity (A), myocardial blood flow velocity (beta) and myocardial blood flow (Ax beta). By comparing re
