Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 209-218 , February 2009

Reducing the Cyclic Variations of Ultrasonic Integrated Backscatters and Myocardial Electrical Synchronism by Reversibly Blocking Intercellular Communications with Heptanol

  • Lung-Chun Lin

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Chau-Chung Wu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Mao-Shin Lin

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Shien-Fong Lin

      Affiliations

    • The Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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  • Yen-Bin Liu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Yen-Bin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 10016, Taiwan

Received 11 March 2008 ,Revised 27 July 2008 ,Accepted 23 August 2008.

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PII: S0301-5629(08)00391-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.08.019

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 209-218 , February 2009

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