From Cotton Candy to Diagnosis and Monitoring of Atherosclerosis: Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Quantification of Intraplaque Neovascularization.

J Am Soc Echocardiogr

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address:

Published: November 2021

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