Measurement of pulmonary transit time and estimation of pulmonary blood volume after exercise using contrast echocardiography.
Ken MonahanEvan BrittainJames J TollePublished in: Journal of echocardiography (2022)
Acquisition of PTT and rPBV using contrast echocardiography after exercise is achievable and the results are physiologically plausible. As the next step towards clinical implementation, validation of this technique against hemodynamic exercise studies appears reasonable.